Each winter, the rugged North Shore serves up some of the largest and most impressive ocean waves on the planet．Giant waves make their long journey across the northern Pacific to the area’s shoreline．For many island residents, this means only one thing: surf up．
The exact origin of surfing is unknown, but most historians believe that the Polynesians were already very good at the sport by the time they migrated to the Hawaiian Islands some 2 000 years ago．Early Hawaiians called surfing “He’e nalu”, which literally translates to “wave sliding”．During this time, only high-ranking officials and nobles had access to the best surf spots．King Kamehameha himself was said to be a keen and skilled surfer．
Surfing really took off in the early 1990s．Riding boards made from redwood and balsa wood, early surfers risked their lives to take on these giant waves．
Today, thanks to a number of modern innovations and inventions, the surfing population on the North Shore has exploded．Wave riders and spectators from around the world gather here from November to February, hoping to catch that perfect wave．Winter wave heights can get as high as 20 feet, with faces up to 50 feet! This extreme surf is for experts only, and even then conditions are considered highly dangerous．
World-known surf contests are held here from early November to late December．The Van’s Triple Crown of Surfing, which includes the Vans Hawaiian Pro at Ali’ i Beach Park in Hale’ iwa, the Rip Curl Cup at Sunset Beach, brings together the world’s best professional surfers．Watching them surfing on the grand waves is really a feast for the eyes．
Although winter on the North Shore may not be the best time and place to learn how to surf, the summer months provide safer and more favorable conditions．
64．The passage is most probably from ________．
A．a guide book B．a magazine
C．a government report D．a geography textbook
65．What can we learn from the passage?
A．High officials were the best surfers in the past.
B．Surfing dates back to at least 2 000 years.
C．The best time for surfing is from November to February.
D．Surfing is a sport for professionals and experts.
66．Which of the following is NOT true to the passage?
A．The Polynesians were among the earliest people who took up surfing.
B．Modern inventions make surf boards safer for the surfers.
C．It is a perfect chance for spectators to watch the competitions.
D．More and more people on the North Shore go in for surfing.
67．It’s suggested that a surf learner should ________.
A．make use of the summer time to learn how to surf
B．meet the challenge of the perfect waves on the North Shore
C．take the chance to win a prize in the world-known competitions
D．watch the professional suffers surfing whenever possible
Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed. We couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience.
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing. I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got knew hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky in my life, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.
| A．hard | B．painful | C．enjoyable | D．unhappy |
The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.
| A．carry on | B．put off | C．pick up | D．give up |
We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.
| A．the writer reached the top of the mountain. |
| B．the writer was very successful in his life. |
| C．thought the writer was young, he could understand his father. |
| D．the writer used to hate climbing the mountain. |
The best title for the passage is ______.
| A．How to Get to the Top of the Mountain | B．Father’s love |
| C．Conversations between Father and Son | D．Reaching the Top of the Mountain |
The Internet is not perfect. There are many problems with it. The Internet is not organized. There is no one in charge of the Internet. It is sometimes difficult to find what you are looking for. It is also easy to get the wrong information on the “Net”. Some businessmen cheat people on the Internet. Internet thieves can steal credit card numbers. Some advertisers send spam to e-mail boxes. E-mail boxes are often filled with these unwanted advertisements. Illegal(不合法的) businesses can operate on the Internet. These businesses sell X-rated materials, cigarettes and alcohol to teenagers.
The Internet has websites with information about making bombs, breaking the law and terrorism. Criminals（罪犯） can fool people, especially children, in chat rooms. They can spread poisonous（有毒的） information and attack new members.
The Internet is the greatest advance in communication since human appeared. But it can also be like a dark road in a dangerous part of town. Parents need to set parental controls on their children when they use the Internet. This will keep some of the bad material away from their children. The Internet can be dangerous to computers, too. Some people who have bad intentions enjoy causing problems for other people they don’t even know. They create computer viruses（病毒）. A computer can get virus by downloading a program that has a virus in it. Some virus come by e-mail.
A virus can destroy the data a person has saved in computer files. A virus can cause a computer to crash（崩溃）. A virus can also reproduce（复制） itself! It can send copies of itself to everyone on a person’s e-mail address list. Then these people’s will have the same problems and can’t work normally!The underlined word “spam” in the third paragraph means ___________
| A．letters | B．products |
| C．useless information | D．poisonous information |
Why can illegal businesses operate on the Internet?
| A．Because there is no one in charge of the Internet. |
| B．Because some people like to buy banned products on the Internet. |
| C．Because X-rated materials, cigarettes, alcohol and so on can be sold well on the Internet. |
| D．Because people who operate businesses on the Internet are criminals. |
Parental controls are needed when children use the Internet because________
| A．children can’t use the computers well |
| B．children may damage the computers |
| C．the Internet is always unsafe for the children |
| D．poisonous information may have a bad effect on children |
The harm of a computer virus is that___________
| A．it can change the saved data in computer |
| B．it can reproduce the computer |
| C．it can make the computer operate ill |
| D．it can destroy the saved files and the computer itself |
We can infer from the passage that the key to solving the problems with the Internet is____________
| A．to improve the computers | B．to improve people’s moral （道德）level |
| C．to order people not to use the Internet | D．to find a medicine to kill computer viruses |
Oprah Winfrey is not just a very successful TV personality(名人) in the US, she is also a woman who has encouraged millions. For those people, her life and her success are a good example. She has struggled with many of the challenges（挑战）that we all face, and she has changed her life. Her message is powerful: I did it, and so can you.
Oprah Winfrey is a black woman whose becoming famous is an encouraging story. She was born on January 29, 1954 in a small village in America. Her patents were very poor. For her family, life seemed to hold no promise.
But there was nothing that could stop Oprah. She was an extremely bright girl at school. She asked her kindergarten teacher to let her go to school sooner and she also skipped (跳级)the second grade of primary school（小学）. Her life from the age of six till about fourteen was very hard. For many women such difficulty would be too heavy to bear（忍受）. But not for Oprah. When she was fourteen, Oprah went to live with her father. Her father showed her how hard work and discipline（自律） could lead to self-improvement. Oprah listened to her father, and a few years later she won a college scholarship that allowed her to go to university.
Two years later, after graduation, she started working for television. For more than ten years she worked for different TV stations across the country. In 1984, she moved to Chicago, where she became the host of a talk show called "AM Chicago". When Oprah started, "AM Chicago" had few listeners. By September of the next year, the show was so successful that it was given a new name: 'The Oprah Winfrey Show".
Oprah Winfrey's story encourages many people to believe that success and happiness in life are within reach for everyone. What does Oprah Winfrey mean by saying “I did it”?
| A．I managed to over come (战胜)the challenges. |
| B．I encouraged many people who want to succeed. |
| C．I created many chances to help people. |
| D．I was respected as a source of strength.(力量源泉) |
When Oprah Winfrey was a child, her parents were so poor that _____.
| A．life seemed hopeless. | B．her family never promised anything. |
| C．her family could hardly keep any promise. | D．nobody trusted her family |
From the third paragraph we can infer________.
| A．Oprah was older than most of her schoolmates when she finished primary school. |
| B．Oprah was younger than most of schoolmates when she finished primary school. |
| C．Oprah couldn’t finish primary school because her family was very poor. |
| D．Oprah stopped her study when she was in the second grade of primary school. |
Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?
| A．Oprah’s father had a great effect（影响） on her. |
| B．AM Chicago was a local newspaper in Chicago. |
| C．Oprah worked for different TV stations in the US. |
| D．Oprah suffered a lot when she was young. |
The best title of the passage may be _____.
| A．Oprah Winfrey’s TV show | B．A popular TV show in America |
| C．Oprah Winfrey | D．How to become a successful host |
To me, life without music would not be exciting. I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone’s life, whether he realizes it or not. Try to imagine, for example, what films or TV plays would be like without music. Would the feelings, the moving plot（情节） and the greatest interests be so exciting or dramatic? I’m not sure about it.
Now, we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning—the kind of music we hear in the concert hall. But if we look at some parts of music more carefully, we discover them in our everyday life too—in the rhythm(节拍) of the sea, the melody of a bird in the woods and so on. So music surely has meaning for everyone, in some way or other. And, of course, it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.
It is well said, “Through music a child enters into a world of beauty, express himself from his heart, feel the joy of doing things alone, learns to take care of others, develops his mind and makes his body strong.”From the text, we learn that many people______.
| A．don’t realize the importance of music |
| B．get along quite well without music |
| C．go to the concert instead of enjoying music |
| D．think music would be less exciting than films |
What does the underlined word “melody” mean in the text?
| A．flying | B．singing | C．looking | D．living |
From the last paragraph, we learn that music_____.
| A．can make our life exciting and dramatic | B．is very necessary for our daily life |
| C．is very important, especially for children | D．can enter into another beautiful world |
What’s the meaning for those who work on playing or writing music?
| A．They treat music as their life. | B．They treat music as part of their life. |
| C．They don’t think music is important. | D．They think it’s only their job. |
What does the writer say more about in the text?
| A．The importance of music | B．Life without music |
| C．Life full of music | D．The development of music |
Once upon a time there was a precious sword. Now, this sword belonged to a great King, and for as long as anyone could remember, the King spent all his time in his place, enjoying its shows and competitions with other swords. One day a great dispute（争端）arouse between this King and the King of a neighbouring country. It ended with both declaring war.
The sword was greatly excited at the prospect of taking part in its first real battle. It would show everyone how truly brave and special it was, and would become well-known throughout the kingdom. On the way to the front line, the sword imagined itself the winner of many battles. However, when it arrived, the first battle had already broken out, and the sword got to see the results of the war. What it saw had nothing in common with what the sword had imagined. No elegant shining knights, successful, with their weapons shining in the sunlight. Instead, all the sword saw was broken weapons, and a large crowd of hungry and thirsty men. There was hardly any food left. Everything was covered in dirt and disgusting smell. Many were half dead and scattered on the ground, bleeding from multiple wounds.
Seeing this, the sword realized it liked neither wars nor battles. It decided it preferred to live in peace and spend its time taking part in tournaments and competitions. So, on the night before what was going to be the big final battle, the sword tried to find a way to prevent it from taking place. After a while, the sword started to vibrate（颤抖）. First it gave out a low buzz, and then this gradually got louder, until it became an annoying metallic noise. The swords and armour（盔甲）of the soldiers asked the King’s sword what it was doing. It told them, “I don’t want there to be a battle tomorrow. I don’t like war.”
One answered, “No one likes it, but what can we do?”
“Make yourself vibrate, just like what I’m doing,” said the King’s sword. “If we make enough noise, no one will sleep.”
So the weapons started vibrating, and the noise became deafening. It was so loud that it reached the enemy camp, and the weapons there, which were equally sick of war, joined the protest.
The next morning, when the battle should have begun, not a single soldier was ready to fight. No one had managed to get even a wink of sleep, not even the King or the Generals. So they spent the whole day catching up on sleep. During the evening they started to wake up, and decided to put off the battle until the next day.
However, the weapons, led by the King’s sword, spent the night repeating their peace song, and again no soldier could rest. The battle had to be postponed yet again, and this carried on for the next seven days. On the evening of the seventh day, the Kings of the two armies met to see what they could do about the situation. Both were very angry at their previous disputes, but after being together for a while they started to discuss their sleepless nights, the surprise on their soldiers’ faces, the confusion between day and night, and the amusing situations all this had created. It wasn’t long before both were laughing, like friends, at these little stories. Fortunately, they forgot their old disputes and they put an end to the war, each returning to their own land with the double joy. From the first paragraph, we can infer that _________.
| A．the great King was fond of his precious sword |
| B．a disagreement led to a war between Kings |
| C．the two Kings were once good friends before the war |
| D．the precious sword was used to entertain the great King |
What is the best word to describe the mood of the sword when it heard about the war?
| A．Worried | B．Fearful | C．Eager | D．peaceful |
When did the sword change its attitude to war?
| A．When it fought at the first battle |
| B．After it realized that it was not powerful |
| C．When it was on the way to the front line |
| D．After it saw the terrible results of the first battle |
What is the right order of the following events?
a. The noise was loud enough to reach the other side
b. The battle had to be postponed because the soldiers in both armies lacked sleep.
c. It let out continuous low noise
d. It persuaded other swords to join in.
e. All the weapons in both side confused day with night
| A．a, b, c, d, e | B．b, a, c, e, d |
| C．c, d, a, e, b | D．d, b, a, e, c |
According to the passage, how many times was the battle put off?
| A．Seven | B．Eight | C．Nine | D．Ten |
What do the underlined words in the last paragraph refer to?
| A．Both King’s sleepless nights |
| B．The end of war and being friends |
| C．The surprise on the soldiers’ faces |
| D．The confusion of day with night |