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A qualified doctor who rarely practiced but instead devoted his life to writing. He once said: “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my lover.” Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was a great playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story.
When Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support his family. After he graduated, he wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
As a writer he was extremely fast, often producing a short story in an hour or less. Chekhov’s medical and science experience can be seen through the indifference (冷漠) many of his characters show to tragic events. In 1892, he became a full time writer and published some of his most memorable stories.
Chekhov often wrote about the sufferings of life in small town Russia. Tragic events control his characters who are filled with feelings of hopelessness and despair.
It is often said that nothing happens in Chekhov’s stories and plays. He made up for this with his exciting technique for developing drama within his characters. Chekhov’s work combined the calm attitude of a scientist and doctor with the sensitivity(敏感) of an artist.
Some of Chekhov's works were translated into Chinese as early as the 1940s. One of his famous stories, The Man in a Shell, about a school teacher’s extraordinarily orderly life, was selected as a text for Chinese senior students.
Which of the following is the right order of the events?
a. became a doctor
b. became a full time writer
c. started to publish comic short stories
d. wrote regularly for a local daily newspaper.
e. entered the Moscow University Medical School

A．e→c→b→a→d	B．e→c→a→d→b
C．d→a→b→c→e	D．a→e→d→c→b

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ________.

A．was a competent doctor	B．had a lawful lover
C．used to be a lawyer	D．as an illegal writer

In 1880, Chekhov ________.

A．became a full-time writer

B．published his most memorable stories

C．studied medicine in Moscow University

D．practiced medicine in his hometown

Which of the following adjectives can’t be used to describe Chekhov?

A．Sensitive.	B．Cool.
C．Quick-minded.	D．Warm-hearted.

The young boy was sitting on the ground in the refugee(难民)camp playing with an empty tin．Other children were standing around watching him with envious eyes．
Envy? Of an empty tin?
This tin was indeed no worthless piece of trash—it was a splendid truck，complete with wheels and grille(铁栅) and floor．The vehicle even had remote control，a frayed piece of string from the“engine”to the hand of the owner．
The tin had lost all its original markings．But its first load had probably been sardines(沙丁鱼)．Later the tin had been left with other rubbish behind the refugee camp clinic，and the boy had found it on one of his daily expeditions into the“big world”．
For thousands of refugee children，a tin 1ike this rates high on their list of wants．It can be used for many purposes，as jewellery，as a toy，for drinking or as a medicine box．
Many refugee children would consider it the happiest day of their lives if they received a handful of marbles(弹珠) as a present．
They dream of gifts which children in developed countries take for granted．Maybe a book to read．or a pencil and an exercise book of their very own．
Their imagination can create toys，but it cannot create books．Someone else must provide them．A more costly and valuable gift they cannot imagine．
How do you think the youn eel when he gets something to read?

A．depressed	B．frustrated
C．excited	D．frightened

Other children envied the young boy because the boy．

A．had something to play with	B．got some sardines to eat
C．received a handful of marbles	D．had a real truck toy

What is implied in the last paragraph of the text?

A．The society should donate(捐)some toys for the refugee children

B．The refugee children are more imaginative rather than creative

C．The refugee children are more creative rather than imaginative

D．The society should offer the refugee children things for study

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．An Enviable Toy Present	B． Sardine Tin—A Precious Toy
C．A Splendid Truck Toy	D．A Poor Refugee Cam

Dolphins (海豚) are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this way they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from almost all land animals. Their brain is nearly the same size as our own, and they live a long time --- at least twenty or thirty years.
Like some animals, dolphins use sound to help them find their way around. They also make these sounds to talk to each other and to help them find food. We now know they do not use their ears to receive these sounds, but the lower part of the mouth, called the jaw.
Strangely, dolphins seem to like man, and for thousands of years there have been stories about the dolphin and its friendship with people.
There is a story about sailors in the 19th century. In a dangerous part of the sea off the coast of New Zealand, they learnt to look for a dolphin called Jack. From 1871 to 1903 Jack met every boat in the area and showed it the way. Then in 1903 a passenger on a boat called The Penguin shot and wounded Jack. He recovered and for nine years more continued to guide all ships through the area－except for The Penguin.
Today, some people continue to kill dolphins, but many countries of the world now protect them and in these places it is against the law to kill them.
By telling the story of Jack the writer wanted to show that _____.

A．people are cruel to animals

B．dolphins are friendly and clever

C．Jack is different from other dolphins

D．dolphins should be protected by law

Dolphins are different from many other animals in that they _____.

A．live in groups	B．have their own language
C．are warm-blooded	D．have large brains

Which of the following does the dolphin use to help it find its way around?

A．Its mouth.	B．Its ears.
C．Its nose.	D．Its eyes.

Why did the sailors off the coast of New Zealand look for Jack?

A．They wanted his help.

B．They enjoyed playing with him.

C．He was seriously wounded.

D．He was lonely and liked to be with people

Butterflies are some of the most fascinating and beautiful insects in the world. Adult butterflies will live about two to four weeks. They use their senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste to survive in the world, find food and mates, lay eggs in a proper place, migrate and avoid hungry enemies.
Butterflies have large compound eyes (复眼), which allow them to see in all directions without turning their heads. Like most insects, butterflies are very near-sighted, so they are more attracted to many flowers. Butterflies do not “see” colors such as red, green and yellow, but they can sense sunlight, which shows the direction in which the sun is shining, as well as ultraviolet light (紫外线), which is present on many flowers and guides butterflies to find honey sources.
Butterflies have a very well-developed sense of smell, but it is not in their nose, since they don’t have one. Sense receptors (感受器) are in their antennae (触角), feet and many other parts of the body. They can help butterflies find their favorite flower honey, food and mates.
Butterflies’ feet have sense organs that can taste the sugar in flower honey, letting the butterflies know if something is good to eat or not. Some females also carefully choose host plants by tasting to find proper places to lay their eggs. Adult butterflies feed their babies using a long tube. Butterflies force blood into the tube to straighten it out, allowing them to feed. Butterflies get all their food from this tube.
Butterflies don’t have ears. Instead they “hear” sounds through their wings by sensing changes in sound vibrations.
Butterflies may possess senses we haven’t known about till today, because their body structure is very different and difficult to understand, when observed through our own human senses. (325 words)
What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．Butterflies have good eyesight.

B．Butterflies can see in all directions and don’t need to turn heads.

C．Butterflies are sensitive to bright colors including red and yellow.

D．Butterflies cannot sense the ultraviolet light.

How do butterflies hear sounds?

A．Using their feet to sense the vibration of things

B．Using their ears to listen directly

C．Using their wings to sense the sound vibrations

D．Using their antennae to judge the sound

Why do female adult butterflies carefully choose the host plants?

A．To find high-qualified honey.

B．To have a good place for living.

C．To make it easier for them to hide from the enemies.

D．To find a proper place for their eggs.

What does the last paragraph imply?

A．There’s a long way to understand butterflies well

B．Butterflies give great help to human beings

C．Butterflies are the most beautiful insects in the world

D．Butterflies possess more senses than humans

The text mainly focuses on __________.

A．butterflies’ living habits

B．butterflies’ beauty

C．butterflies’ daily activities

D．butterflies’ senses

According to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the U.K. has about 7.7 million families with dependent children, of which 3.7 million have just one child, compared to 3 million with two and 1.1 million with three children or more. The number of families today with just one dependent child is now 47 percent and will likely rise to more than 50 percent in a decade. As the ONS confirms, “It appears that families are getting smaller.”
One obvious reason for this could be that women are putting off having children until they have established careers when they miss the best time to be a mother. But it could just as well be a matter of choice. Parents must consider the rising cost of living, combined with economic uncertainty and an increasingly difficult job market. And this trend may continue growing as having an only child becomes more normal, which seems to be the mood on the mothers’ online forum Mumsnet, where one member announced that she “just wanted to start a positive thread(t帖子) about how good it is to have an only child”.
She had received 231 replies, overwhelmingly in the same high spirits. Parents of only children insist there are plenty of benefits. Nicola Kelly, a writer and lecturer who grew up as an only child and is now a married mother of one, says her 15-year-old son seems more grown-up in many ways than his classmates.
Not all products of single-child families are as keen to repeat the experience. In a moving recent account journalist Janice Turner wrote about her own keenness to “squeeze out two sons just 22 months apart” as a reaction to her only-child upbringing(抚养).
She was placed on a high position by her doting(溺爱的) parents, whom she punished with an “impolite, willful” rejection of everything they stood for. Desperate for a close friend she was repeatedly hurt by rejection and refers to her childhood as being “misery”.
Writer and doctor Dr. Dorothy Rowe, a member of the British Psychological Society, says that we all interpret events in our own individual way and there are some children who no matter what their circumstances feel slighted, while other children see the advantages of their situation.
However, the one part of life that is unlikely to get any easier for only children is when they grow up and find themselves looking after their own parents as they become older.
According to the passage, how many families in the U.K. have an only child?

A．7.7million	B．3.7 million
C．3 million	D．1.1 million

The passage is written with the purpose of ________.

A．illustrating the strength and weakness of having an only child

B．analyzing the reasons why having an only child becomes popular

C．presenting us with different opinions about having an only child

D．guiding people to look at the same issue from different perspectives

What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Nearly half of families intend to have just one child.

B．All people don’t stand for the idea of having an only child.

C．Some people fail to recognize the advantage of having an only child.

D．People brought up in an only child family resist downsizing the family.

From what Dr. Dorothy Rowe said, we know that ________.

A．journalist Janice Turner experienced a miserable childhood

B．she has a positive attitude towards Janice Turner’s reaction

C．it’s necessary for us to look at the event from our own angle

D．some children are unable to make an objective assessment of their conditions

What can be inferred from the passage?

A．It’s normal to see the imperfection in character in only children.

B．Mumsnet is an online forum which promotes having an only child.

C．Economic development plays a determining role in the family size.

D．Only children will have difficulty in attending to their parents.

A．the school where you study	B．the family you have chosen
C．your classmates	D．your own parents