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When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate(照亮)me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:“Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend, He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:“Yes, I must tell….”We have never met.
It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist(心理学家),who will only fill up the healing(愈合的)silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.
69. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ______.
A. become serious about her study
B. go to her friend’s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend
70. In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.
A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London
71. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _______.
A. call each other regularly
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other
72. In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ______.
A.need professional help       B. be left alone
C. stay with her best friend    D. break the silence

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Sir,
Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare. Your company, Cosmo books Ltd., offered this set (eight books of plays and two books of poetry) at what was claimed to be a ‘remarkable’ price: fifteen pounds and fifty pence, including postage and packing. I had wanted a set of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for some time, and these books, in red imitation leather, looked particularly attractive; so I sent for them.
Two weeks later, the books arrived, together with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which I had not ordered. So I returned the Dickens books to you, with a cheque for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare. Two more weeks passed. Then there arrived on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I do not read French, these were of no use to me at all. However, I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and collect all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further notice.
You did not reply to that letter. Instead you sent me a bill for forty two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two weeks, the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I hardly know what I have. The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to stand in the rain outside.
I have no room for any more books, and even if I read from now until the Last Judgment, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.
Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters demanding payment. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, leaving me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.
Yours faithfully,
SIMON WALKER
Simon Walker wrote the letter to ________

A.show his anger to Cosmo Books Ltd..
B.complain about getting books he didn’t want.
C.advise readers not to order books from Cosmo Books Ltd..
D.urge for the final solution to the problem with the unwanted books.

The advertisement that Mr. Walker saw in the Morning Mail was for ________

A.unlimited number of Cosmo Books.
B.a set of 10 books of the works of Shakespeare.
C.fifteen pounds and fifty pence.
D.a book containing all the plays and poems of Shakespeare.

Mr. Walker answered the advertisement because ________

A.he wanted a set of Shakespeare’s works which was a good bargain
B.he claimed that the books were being offered at a remarkable price.
C.he had ordered the set and had been waiting for them to come for some time.
D.the set he already had was not particularly attractive.

The Donkey Mobile Library

It is a bright morning in the Ethiopian countryside. Yohannes walks beside a pair of donkeys that are pulling a two-wheeled cart. They arrive at the agricultural town of Awassa where Yohannes opens the sides of the cart to display, not the usual vegetables or tools, but children’s books. This is the Donkey Mobile Library, the first of its kind in Ethiopia and one of only a few in the world.
Yohannes was born in Ethiopia, North Africa, but trained to be a librarian in the USA and returned to Ethiopia years ago. The cart is full of picture books donated by American libraries, teachers and school children.
Yohannes arranges small painted benches in the shade of the trees, and suddenly Ethiopian children come shouting and racing down every road and path. It’s mobile library day! They circle the bookshelves with great excitement. Until the Donkey Mobile Library began its regular two-monthly visits, many of these children had never seen a book.
“Without books, education is very dull, like food without salt. You can survive but you can’t really come alive,” says Yohannes. “The ability to read is the basis for greater productivity, better health and longer life. Even though the children lack material goods, with books they can imagine a world of possibilities.”
Yohannes first worked in the children’s section of the main library in America. Surrounded by books he had never seen before, he realized how joyful and imaginative children’s literature is. He says, “I always thought of Ethiopia. But how could I bring children’s books to my home country when it had almost no libraries to keep the books in?”
He contacted Jane Kurtz, a writer born in America but brought up in Ethiopia, and together they created the Donkey Mobile Library. The children say that the Library has given them ideas about what they might do in the future. A child called Dareje wants to be a scientist and find a cure for life-threatening diseases. An eleven year-old girl, Fikerte, wants to do research about the moon and discover new facts about outer space. Tamrat, aged 10, comes every time.
“What brings you back here time and time again?” the librarian asks him.
“The stories,” Tamrat replies instantly.
How do the children feel when they see the Donkey Mobile Library?

A.Curious. B.Surprised. C.Interested. D.Excited.

We can conclude from the passage that .

A.Ethiopian children have no idea about their future
B.Yohannes and Kurtz share similar life experiences
C.donkey carts in Awassa usually carry vegetables and tools
D.most books in the Donkey Mobile Library were bought in America

According to the passage, the Donkey Mobile Library .

A.visits the countryside every day B.benefits Ethiopian children a lot
C.was created by Yohannes himself D.was the first of its kind in the world

Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?

A.A news report. B.A book review. C.A historical story. D.An advertisement.

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher (哲学家) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?
No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance (物质) of the universe.
Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.
The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”.
Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about_________.

A.94 years old B.106years old C.40 years old D.46 years old

The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “_______”.

A.not difficult B.not simple C.not famous D.not different

From the passage we know that _______.

A.Thales asked many questions B.Greeks were all philosophers
C.science began long ago D.water and air make up all things.

On the whole, the passage tells about _______.

A.early tries to understand the universe B.the famous Greek thinkers
C.water falling from the sky D.air lying all around the earth

After reading the passage, we can be sure that_______.

A.nothing ever changes in the universe
B.Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air
C.the universe is made up of four different substances
D.the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.
The main idea of this passage is that_____

A.large numbers of people do not need sleep
B.a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep
C.everyone needs some sleep to stay alive
D.people can live longer by trying not to sleep

The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____

A.to cure him of his sleeplessness
B.to find that his sleeplessness was not really true
C.to find out why some old people did not need any sleep
D.to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Herpin_____

A.needed some kind of sleep
B.was too old to need any sleep
C.needed no sleep at all
D.often sleep in a chair

One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was _____

A.his mother’s injury before he was born
B.that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit
C.his magnificent physical condition
D.that he hadn’t got a bed

Herpin’s condition could be regarded as ______

A.a common one B.one that could be cured C.very healthy D.a rare one

“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.

A.at home B.sleeping C.sitting in bed D.both A and B

The author saved the baby _____.

A.because he was very brave. B.because he liked the baby very much.
C.but he just happened to save it. D.because it was the Mayor’s baby.

He ran in the wrong direction because he _______.

A.was a stranger there B.could see nothing
C.was not completely awake D.Both A and C

He put the bundle over his face and ran in order to ______.

A.save the baby B.call for help C.protect his face D.run quickly

Form which group of words, we can learn the fire took place out of people’s surprise?______

A.old and wooden house, a bundle B.crashed to, fell down
C.terrible, half-awake D.bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat

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