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“Can I see my baby?” the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out of the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears.
Time proved that the baby’ s hearing was perfect. It was only his appearance that was imperfect. When he rushed home from school one day and threw himself into his mother’s arms, she sighed(叹息), knowing that his life was to be unfortunate. He cried to his mum “A boy, a big boy... called me a freak (怪人).”
He grew up, handsome. A favorite with his fellow students, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift, a talent for literature and music. “But you might communicate with other young people,” his mother blamed him, but felt a kindness in her heart.
Two years went by. One day, his father said to the son, “You’ re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it’ s a secret.” The operation was a great success, and a new person appeared.
Later he married and became a lawyer. One day, he asked his father, “Who gave me the ears? Who gave me so much? I could never do enough for him or her.” “I do not believe you could,” said the father, “but the agreement was that you are not to know... not yet.”
The years kept their secret, but the day did come. He stood with his father over his mother’ s casket棺材. Slowly, tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick, reddish brown hair to show the mother had no outer ears.
“Mother said she was glad she never let her hair be cut,” his father whispered gently, “and nobody ever thought Mother less beautiful, did they?”
Why did Mother gasp when she saw her newborn baby?

A.Because her son had a tiny face.
B.Because she saw her son crying.
C.Because her son was born imperfect.
D.Because her son was in her arms.

Which word can describe Mother’ s feeling when the son threw himself into her arms?

A.Nervous. B.Sympathetic. C.Proud. D.Angry.

We can infer that the person who donate the ears is_____.

A.A doctor. B.His father. C.His mother. D.A stranger.

From the passage we know the followings are True except________

A.the mother felt sorry for the son without ears
B.the doctor didn’t like the baby
C.the boy meant everything to the mother
D.the father kept the secret until mother died

The best title for the passage would be ________.

A.Mother’s hair B.An unforgettable memory
C.Who gave me the ears? D.Who is my best respectable person?
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Teaching materials for learning Chinese are provided here. There are sites where you may find interesting instructions suitable for you. Here are some sites to begin your surfing.
You may start with these pages from this website — just to get a little taste of it without working too hard.
● A Is For Love
Flash cards for learning a few Chinese words
● Listening to the sound of Chinese
Play a few words of Chinese on your computer.
● A few Chinese words
Each word is enlarged for easy study.
If you are studying Chinese, these tools can help.
● Zhongwen site
More than a dictionary!
● Clavis Sinica
Excellent program by Professor David Porter. It displays a whole document in Chinese [GB] or [BIG5], and gives individual word’s definition, pronunciation as well as much more information when you click on that word. If you are studying Chinese, this is a very useful tool.
● Chinese Character Visual Dictionary
If you like to know more, go to the following sites on the Internet.
● The Chinese Outpost
Pronunciation, Character and Grammer By Mark Andrew Baker. The best. A must-visit site.
● Learn Cantonese / Mandarin Online
● Internet Based Chinese Teaching and Learning
● Rainland Kids discover Chinese — Site is in Germany
If you want to have a better understanding of China, go to this one.
● Wanfang Data
As an affiliate (分支) of Chinese Ministry of Science && Technology, Wanfang Data has been the leading information provider in China since 1950s. With a wide range of database resources and value-added services, Wanfang Data has become a gateway to understanding Chinese culture, medicine, business, science, etc.
The underlined lines are probably some ______.

A.books B.websites C.tips for learning Chinese D.dictionaries for learning Chinese

This passage is most probably from ______.

A.a TV programme B.a teacher’s lecture C.a newspaper D.the Internet

If you want to know each Chinese character’s definition, pronunciation and much more information, you’d better surf ______.

A.Zhongwen site B.A Is For Love C.Clavis Sinica D.A few Chinese words

If you want to know China about its culture, medicine, business, science, you’d better surf ______.

A.Learn Mandarin online B.Wanfang Data
C.Rainland kids discover Chinese D.The Chinese Outpost

The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:
“I hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They can’t even understand a bit of music.”
“I’m never playing in that club again. Too many drunks and nobody listens to us.”
But, one younger musician said, “There are a few clubs that book my band a few nights a month, and I’m trying to find other places to play. I’m also looking to book a few summer festivals this year.”
I’ve heard that you are the average of the five people whom you spend the most time with, or to put it another way, you are who your friends are.
Attitudes are important. Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re rubbing off on you. If you’re around people who complain about lack of work and about other musicians, or blame (责怪) others, and you play the role of victim (受害者), chances are you will start to as well. So it’s time to take a look at the people you call “friends”.
This is an easy exercise: Make a list of the people who you hang out with, and simply stop spending time with the negative people on your list. Set a new standard (标准) for yourself and don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard.
Keep successful people around you and your own chances for success will be much better. Ask them how they do it. Ask if they will help you get the work you’re looking for, or maybe give you some advice to help you on your career path.
Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A.A friend in need is a friend indeed
B.How to make friendship last for ever
C.You are who your friends are
D.Friends are the most important in one’s success

The underlined sentence “they’re rubbing off on you” in Paragraph 6 means ______.

A.they’ll push you ahead B.they’ll influence you
C.they’ll cover your shortcomings D.they’ll help you achieve your goal

The musicians’ words at the beginning are written mainly to show ______.

A.the musicians’ living conditions are quite poor
B.people have poor taste in music
C.people have different attitudes towards the same thing
D.young people have greater chances of succeeding

By taking the exercise mentioned in Paragraph 7, you can ______.

A.improve a lot in making more friends
B.come to the right way of making friends
C.develop a better relationship with your friends
D.arrange the time with your friends properly


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Visit the famous Panda Reserve to see the lovely animals. We then fly to the historic city of Xi’an for two nights’ stay and enjoy traditional Shui Jiao. Next day, explore one of the most important discoveries of the 20th Century-the Terracotta Warriors(兵马俑), followed by the ancient City Wall and a performance of Tang Dynasty dancing.
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Visit Little Wild Goose Pagoda and see the ancient objects at the well-known Shaanxi Provincial Museum before walking through the lively Muslim Quarter to see the Great Mosque. Later fly to Beijing for three nights’ stay and try Peking Duck. During our stay in Beijing, we stroll through Tiananmen Square to the Forbidden City, the largest and best preserved collection of ancient buildings in China, and visit the Summer Palace. Next day we take a walk on the Great Wall, tour the unique Temple of Heaven and enjoy an attractive Chinese Acrobatic Show.
◆Day 14: Beijing-UK
Fly back to the UK, arriving home later the same day filled with happy memories.
The first and last scenic spots to be visited in Xi’an are .

A.the Terracotta Warriors and Shaanxi Provincial Museum
B.the Terracotta Warriors and the Great Mosque
C.Little Wild Goose Pagoda and the Great Mosque
D.Little Wild Goose Pagoda and the Muslim Quarter

The underlined word “sample” in the passage probably means “”.

A.buy B.reserve C.taste D.make

The ad is mainly intended to .

A.provide the British with a better understanding of China
B.attract the British to traditional Chinese food
C.offer services of booking air tickets to tourists
D.encourage the British to travel in China

Which of the following is TRUE according to the ad?

A.The tourists will stay in Beijing for three nights before leaving for the UK.
B.The tourists will visit the 1920’s Shikumen buildings in Beijing.
C.The tourists will take a side trip to the Three Gorges Dam during the tour.
D.The tourists will have to pay extra for fuel and meals.

Doris Lessing was born in 1919 in Persia, moving as a child with her family to southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where she stayed in school only to the age of 14.
A year after moving to London, she published her first novel in 1950. The Grass is Singing examines unbridgeable racial conflict(冲突) in colonial Africa through the eyes of a white farmer’s wife and her black servant.
Her literary breakthrough came in 1962 with publication of The Golden Notebook, seen by many, though not necessarily Lessing, as a pioneering work of modern feminism(女权运动). A separated study of the mind of the main character, Amma Wulf, the novel explores her thoughts about Africa, politics and relationships with men and sex.
Lessing’s themes changed to psychology in her works from the 1960s, and by the 1970s the was extremely interested in the Islamic mystic tradition of Sufism(苏菲教派). Her turn toward science fiction with the Canopus series in the early 1980s was not warmly received by traditionalist critics, but she has continued to win new readers and numerous literary awards, including the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the Companion of Honour from the Royal Society of Literature, both in 2001.
Following the announcement, the Horace Engdahl told VOA why he was personally so pleased with Lessing’s selection.
“She is one of the truly great writers-of novels, short stories, fiction and non-fiction,” Engdahl said. “She is one of the few writers who have had the courage to uphold the principle of equality between the male and female experience, and she has given the impulse(冲动) to numbers of other women writers. And she is really the mother of a school that is one of the most important in our contemporary literature.”
At 87, Doris Lessing is the oldest Nobel Literature winner sine the first prizes were awarded in 1901.
What would be the best title for this passage?

A.Doris Lessing writes The Golden Notebook
B.Doris Lessing is a pioneer of modern feminism
C.Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
D.Doris Lessing is concerned about Africa

It can be inferred from the passage that .

A.there are only two characters in The Grass is Singing
B.The Golden Notebook is regarded as Lessing’s masterpiece by herself
C.life in Africa in her early age lays a solid foundation for her writing
D.Doris Lessing is strongly against traditional culture in Africa

According to the fourth paragraph, .

A.Lessing began to believe in Christ in the 1970s
B.Lessing’s science fiction won readers
C.Lessing had won two literary medals for her writings
D.Lessing changed her themes to meet the needs of traditional critics

According to the Horace Engdahl, Lessing wins Nobel Prize mainly because .

A.she has rich experience in living in Africa
B.she is a head master of an important school
C.she encourages women writers to struggle against men
D.she makes great contributions to equal rights for women

Sports play an important role in British life. The most popular sport is football. Cricket is also popular in England, but is less important in the other home nations. Rugby union and rugby league are the other major team sports. Tennis is the most important sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon Championships(温布尔登网球锦标赛)
Football
The modern global game of football developed from traditional British football games in the 19th century. Club football is organized separately in each of the home nations. English football has a league system which combines thousands of clubs. Scotland has a similar but smaller club football structure. The top level league in Wales is the league of Wales. In Northern Ireland the main league is the Irish Football League.
Each season the most successful clubs from each of the home nations qualify for(使…具有…的资格) the two Europe wide club competitions organized by UEFA(欧足联), the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
Cricket
Cricket was invented in England. It is regarded as England’s national summer game and it is probably the second most widely covered sport.
There are eighteen professional country clubs, seventeen of them in England and one in Wales. Each summer the country clubs compete in the first class Country Championship, which consist of two leagues of nine teams and in which matches are played over four days.
Rugby
Like football, rugby union and rugby league both developed from traditional British football games in the 19th century. For much of the 20th century there was great antagonism between rugby leagues, which was a mainly working class game based in the industrial areas of northern England, and rugby union, which is a mainly middle class game in England, and is also popular in the other home nations.
Tennis
Tennis is yet another sport which originated in the United Kingdom and the governing body of the sport is the LTA(草地网球协会). However, no British man has won Wimbledon since 1936 and no British woman since 1977. The only British players of either sex to reach the world top 50 in recent years are Greg Rusedski, who learnt his tennis in Canada, and Tim Henman and Andrew Murray ,who did not pass through the LTA system either.
What do we know about football?

A.The top clubs represent the UK in the two Europe competitions.
B.Football is a newly-invented game in England
C.The top level league in England is the Irish Football League
D.Club football is an organized union in the UK.

From the passage we can learn .

A.There exist all professional county clubs in England.
B.Rugby leagues was enjoyed by middle class
C.Tennis is in the charge of LTA
D.Greg Rusedski did not pass through the LTA system.

The underlined “antagonisim” in the sixth paragraph probably means .

A.preference B.friendliness C.similarity D.opposition

From what can we read the passage?

A.tour guidebook B.book review
C.news report D.news magzine

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