Food sometimes gets poisoned with harmful things. A person who eats such food can get an illness called food poisoning. Food poisoning is usually not serious, but some types are deadly, The symptoms ( 症状) of food poisoning usually begin within hours of eating the poisoned food. Fever is one of the most common symptoms.
Certain microorganisms (微生物) cause most types of food poisoning. Bacteria and other microorganisms can poison eggs, meat, vegetables, and many other foods. After entering the body, these tiny living things release (释放) poisons that make people sick.
Some chemicals can also cause food poisoning. They are often added to food while it is being grown, processed, or prepared. For example, many farmers spray chemicals on crops to kill weeds and insects. Some people may have a bad reaction to those chemicals when they eat the crops.
Some plants and animals contain natural poisons that are harmful to people. These include certain kinds of seafood, grains, nuts, seeds, beans, and mushrooms.
When people handle food properly, the risk of food poisoning is very small. Microorganisms multiply rapidly in dirty places and in warm temperatures. This means that people should never touch food with ditty hands or put food on unwashed surfaces. Food should be kept in a refrigerator to stop microorganisms from growing. Meat needs to be co
oked thoroughly to kill any dangerous microorganisms. People should also wash foo
d covered with chemicals before eating it. Finally, people should not eat wild mushrooms or other foods that grow in the wild. Some of these foods may contain natural materials that are poisonous to humans. In addition, some types of fish can be poisonous.
Most people recover from food poisoning after a few days of resting and drinking extra water. 
If people eat natural poisons, they must go to the hospital right away to have their stomachs emptied. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
| A．Food poisoning means death |
| B．When poisoned, food can make people sick |
| C．Food poisoning comes in varieties |
| D．Food poisoning can be serious |
We know from the passage that the symptoms of food poisoning ______.
| A．only contain fever | B．are too common to be noticed |
| C．can be noticed within hours | D．can be ignored |
Food poisoning can be caused by all the following EXCEPT __________.
| A．some chemicals | B．low temperatures |
| C．some tiny living things | D．certain natural materials |
From Paragraph 5, we can learn that ____________.
| A．mushrooms should not be eaten |
| B．vegetables are safer than meat and seafood |
| C．natural poisons are more dangerous than chemicals |
| D．different types of food should be handled differently |
It can be inferred from the passage that _____________.
| A．natural materials are safe in food processing |
| B．chemicals are needed in food processing |
| C．food poisoning can be kept under control |
| D．food poisoning is out of control |
King's College Summer School
King's College Summer School is an annual( 每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King's College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year's summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.
More information is as follows:
| Application (申请) date lStudents in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2007. lStudents of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2007. lForeign students should send their applications before July 10, 2007. |
CourseslEnglish Language Spoken English: 22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours lAmerican History: 16 hours lAmerican Culture: 16 hours |
| StepslA letter of self-introduction lA letter of recommendation(推荐) ﹡ The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. |
CostlDaily lessons: $200 lSports and activities: $100 lTravels: $200 lHotel service: $400 ﹡You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
| Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King' s Street New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo, com |
You can most probably read the text in ________.
| A．a newspaper | B．a travel guide | C．a textbook | D．a telephone book |
Which of the following is true about King's College Summer School?
| A．Only top students can take part in the program. |
| B．King's College Summer School is run every other year. |
| C．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program. |
| D．Only the teachers of King's College give courses. |
What information can you get from the text?
| A．The program will last two months. |
| B．You can write to Thompson only in English. |
| C．As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2007. |
| D．You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone. |
Someone asked me, “what do you think of youth?” I showed him a can of COKE. See this?
“C” means “courage”. There’s a seed in everyone’s heart. As long as you really keep watering it, it will grow and harvest. Courage gives us the power to follow our dreams. Believe in yourself and be prepared for anything in the future.
“O” stands for “optimism”. When in trouble, some people feel disappointed but some people still keep their dreams. Be sure to choose the latter. Life is very much like a mirror. If you smile on it, it smiles back on you. If you frown, you will get a similar look in return. Throw away the sadness in your heart while filling it with brightness and hope.
“K” can be understood as “knowledge”. In order to keep up with the times, we should use knowledge to enrich ourselves. Knowledge is the food of thought and, as long as it is put in our brain, we will grow wiser.
“E” is short for “enthusiasm (热情)”. Enthusiasm is the sign of youth. We use colourful paint-brushes in our hands to create the pictures of youth on our own. Let the sky and sea know we’re young. Let out our enthusiasm wherever we go.
Drink a can of COKE. You will find your youth as refreshing (有活力的) as a can of coke. Enjoy and value your youth.In the passage, the word “COKE” refers to .
| A．a kind of drink young people enjoy |
| B．what young people should have |
| C．basic abilities young people need |
| D．young people’s confidence and pride |
The seed in everyone’s heart in fact is.
| A．hope | B．knowledge | C．courage | D．imagination |
What should young people do to prepare themselves for the highly technological future?
| A．Learn to be an active learner. |
| B．Have confidence in themselves. |
| C．Follow their interests and dreams. |
| D．Be enthusiastic wherever they are. |
According to the writer, young people are .
| A．confident | B．optimistic | C．learned | D．enthusiastic |
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
Mark went home after leaving Bill at his house. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school, where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long-awaited senior year came. Three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Do you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide(自杀). But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”What happened to Bill on his way home from school?
| A．Bill almost killed himself. |
| B．Bill was caught on something and almost fell down. |
| C．Bill was sleepy from the sleeping pills. |
| D．Bill noticed Mark following him home. |
After Bill got home, .
| A．he missed his friend Mark very much |
| B．he decided to break up with his girlfriend |
| C．he intended to kill himself immediately |
| D．he thought of the friendliness of Mark |
Mark saved Bill from committing suicide by.
| A．helping Bill pick up the fallen books on the ground |
| B．saying something comfortable and friendly to Bill |
| C．persuading Bill not to leave a mess for other people |
| D．being friendly to Bill in trouble |
Bill cleared his locker in order to .
| A．store away some of his mother’s sleeping pills |
| B．prepare for the next school year of high school |
| C．leave the world without troubling others |
| D．help his mother do some housework the last time |
I first met Annie Mae, a maid (女仆), at my parents-in-laws’ in 1959. She prepared and36 meals in her quiet, gentle way and then returned to the kitchen to read her Bible (《圣经》) while we 37 . She was a devoted Christian. I found this increasingly true 38 I came to know her more by observation than by conversation.
My husband and I 39 visited his parents. Each time I saw her eating 40 , reading her Bible, I wanted to sit down with her and just talk. 41 , whites didn’t do that with blacks then, and I had to42 the practice.
In 1965, I decided to 43 the furniture and return to my home state with my two 44 when my husband wanted a divorce (离婚).
Annie Mae asked if she could buy the boys’ 45 . When I answered 46 , she asked the price. Then, she asked if she could 47a little money each month. She was48 , and I knew her well.
Then each month, an envelope 49 us from Annie Mae with 2 or 3 dollars. A year passed. Annie Mae’s50 payment arrived along with the following note:
Dear Mrs. Holladay,
I am sending you my last payment of three dollars for the beds 51 . I told my two sons they could now put the beds 52 and sleep in them, for they are now paid for and rightfully53 us.Thank you for your 54 .
Annie Mae
I read the note two or three times, my eyes filled with tears. Had I only known earlier, I would have said, “Use them now. Don’t 55 until you pay for them.”
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Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different.
In the world of monkeys，grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey.
The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
| A．Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world. |
| B．In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other. |
| C．Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated. |
| D．Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive. |
The underlined statement “it is all too monkey” means that ________.
| A．monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows |
| B．monkeys, like humans, tend to be envious of each other |
| C．no animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings |
| D．feeling angry at unfairness is also monkey’s nature |
Female monkeys of this kind are chosen for the research most probably because they are _________.
| A．more likely to pay attention to the value of what they get |
| B．attentive to researchers’ instructions |
| C．nice in both appearance and behaviors |
| D．more ready to help others than their male companions |
We can learn ________according to the passage?
| A．Human beings' feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys. |
| B．Cooperation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated. |
| C．In the research, male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others. |
| D．Only monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago. |
What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarah’s study?
| A．The monkeys can be trained to develop social senses. |
| B．The monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment. |
| C．They usually show their feelings openly as humans do. |
| D．Cooperation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild. |