In this day and age when we have a tendency to toss toys that are even slightly worn, it is tough to believe that there is a “hospital” where dolls can be repaired and brought back to their original glory. What is even more amazing is that such a place has existed for a century and is still going strong. Welcome to Sydney’s “original Doll Hospital” that celebrated its l00th birthday, on February 22nd, 2013.
In 1913, a general store owner in Sydney began importing dolls. However, the rubber bands(橡皮圈) that held them together would often break. Luckily for him, his brother Harold Chapman Sr., was a good handyman and set aside a little “hospital” area in the store to repair the delicate toys. But when customers found out about this, they began bringing in their raggedy dolls, stuffed animals and even leather goods and umbrellas—starting what would become a family business for many generations.
In l930, Chapman’s son also, named Harold, relocated the doll hospital and expanded the business even further, by agreeing to repair anything that could be fixed, no matter how big or small. While business was robust, the real boom came in 1938 during World War Two. Faced with extreme restrictions, new dolls and toys became a rarity, and young girls and boys had no option, but to get their existing ones lovingly restored.
While it does not have as many employees today, the hospital that is run by his son Geoff Chapman now sits in a spiffy location with a beautiful store-front that features everything a little girl could possibly wish for, from new to lovingly restored, to even extremely rare and valuable dolls. Also in keeping with modern times and dolls, the doctors are now specialists—some focus on bringing back to life modern dolls, while others stick to antiques. And then there are also the soft toy experts and accessory repair experts.
Though it may not appear to be, the doctors say their jobs are very interesting given that no two dolls are the same or need the same repairs and that just like medical doctors they have no idea what obstacle they will have to face when they come to work each day. The one advantage? There are no emergency night calls to worry about!We can learn from Paragraph 2 that __________.
| A．people showed little interest in having their toys repaired at first |
| B．most of the toys that had broken were thrown away by Harold |
| C．stores in Sydney didn’t produce toys for kids at the beginning of 1900s |
| D．the toy repairing business came into being rather accidently |
The underlined word “robust” in Paragraph 3 shows the family’s business __________.
| A．was struggling hard |
B．was greatly stricken |
| C．was developing very well |
D．was enjoying its best time |
What can we learn about people working in the toy repairing hospital?
| A．They work in that hospital mainly because they love toys. |
| B．Most of them focus on repairing modern dolls for little kids. |
| C．They are not capable of repairing toys that are extremely rare. |
| D．There are different experts who specialize in different types of toys. |
Which of the following words can describe the doctors’ work according to the last paragraph?
| A．Simple. |
B．Boring. |
C．Worthless. |
D．Challenging. |
A Good Teacher is a Strict Teacher
One of the most important parts in the healthy development of a
child is played by education. But the way in which education is
understood has changed completely, as we must not forget that
the severe and unfeeling way of bringing up a child in the past
was primarily based on cruel grounding（基础）and strict
rules that were supposed to create accomplished individuals, the typical gentlemen. Nowdays,
society is much more open-minded and it does not put a great value on being strict, although this
doesn’t mean that opinions regarding this subject do not differ.
On the one hand, there are also people who believe that there has got to be a bound between
teacher and student if any satisfying results are awaited. Luckily for us, more and more teachers are
understanding this fact and are doing their best to get over the strict rules and get in touch with us.
My opinion is that only by having a friendly attitude and accepting other opinions, especially
those of your pupils, you are truly able to do your job at high standards. However, this does not
mean that a teacher shouldn’t be a bit more rough when he feels that things are getting out of hand.
All in all, I must say that a good teacher is the teacher that has the ability to be kind and strict at the
same time, thus achieving to gain his students respect and interest.The aim of education in the past was to.
| A．create perfect persons | B．create open-minded persons |
| C．bring up a child | D．build a cruel grounding |
According to the passage, the narrow-minded people think.
| A．a pupil is always interested in what he is learning |
| B．a pupil himself will improve his studies |
| C．children should be made to study |
| D．children don’t like a rough hand |
The underlined word “job” in the last paragraph can be replaced by.
| A．controlling | B．teaching | C．learning | D．punishing |
The author thinks a good teacher should be.
| A．kind and strict | B．skilled and clever |
| C．rough and cruel | D．friendly and practical |
It can be inferred from the passage that.
| A．society is much more open-minded and being strict is out date |
| B．as long as the teachers are strict with students, the students will certainly get good marks |
| C．most people are in favor of strict teachers because they have strict grounding and strict rules |
| D．if we expect students to develop in a healthy way, the good relationship between teachers and students is important |
As dangerous as sharks may have seed to people after watching Jaws, which was released on June 20,1975, the recent disastrous decrease in their numbers show that people have proven far more dangerous to sharks.
This disastrous decline is due in large part to commercial fishing of sharks. “The market for
shark fins（鱼翅）in East Asia opened up thanks to changes in their economy, increasing their
ability to spend money on things such as shark fin soup,” Burgess said.
However, the biggest worry for sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays, which are suffering a similar fate, “is how they are killed incidentally when fishermen try and take other fish—the problem of bycatch（渔业混获）,” Burgess explained. “They may be thrown back afterward, but they’re still dead.”
The key of the problems behind bringing sharks back is that “they’re not the same as other fish,” Burgess said, “Sharks are slow growing and slow to reach maturity. Sharks are live bearers, which means females keep their young in their body just like us, but instead of nine months, it takes 12 to 18 months or more in sharks. Also, sharks generally can’t give birth again until a year after they’ve given birth—sometimes they’re on a three-year cycle. So once you get a shark population knocked down, this ‘life in the slow lane’ means that recovery is measured in decades rather than years.”\
Burgess said, “I’m on the recovery team for it, but the recovery plan for that is over the course of 100 years. So I won’t see them recover, nor will you, nor will your children. That’s what it means when these animals go down—they’re down a long time.”
Any measures aimed at saving sharks must not only consider byeatch, “which is the real killer right now,” but also encourage interactional cooperation, Burgess said.
“Sharks are very migratory, and many species cross borders,” he said. “We can protect them only by getting many govemment to come aboard. That’s the hardest part about this.”The text mainly tells us.
| A．shark fins are valuable | B．sharks are dangerous |
| C．bycatch brings bad effects | D．sharks are in danger |
The number of sharks is decreasing mostly because of.
| A．the film Jaws | B．commercial interests |
| C．changes in economy | D．shark fin soup |
Bringing sharks back is difficult because.
| A．they’re like the other fish |
| B．their reproductive rate is slow |
| C．they can’t give birth again |
| D．their life cycle is only 3 years |
What can be concluded from the last paragraph?
| A．Sharks live the way human beings do. |
| B．It’s time many govemments cooperate. |
| C．Sharks’ migration takes a very long time. |
| D．Bycatch shouldn’t be forbidden by intemational laws. |
The test is most probably a .
| A．newspaper ad | B．book review |
| C．science news report | D．science fiction story |
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow
water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small
fish gather by the thousands off an Alabama pirer. Birds covered in
oil are crawling deep into marshes （沼泽）, never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster（英国石油公司漏油事件）are seeing
some strange phenomena. Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign. The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be captured by their enemies.
The nearly two-month-old spill（漏油）has created an environmental disaster in US history as tens of millions of gallons have flown into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.
For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate
islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking（嬉戏）in the oily sheen（光泽）and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.
"I think part of the reason why we're not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are
really just beginning," Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.
The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will
help determine how much BP pays in damages.What do the marine life react to the BP disaster?
| A．Birds crawl deep into caves. |
| B．Dolphins and sharks show up in deep water. |
| C．Tens of thousands of marine animals are found dead. |
| D．Sea creatures flee from oil spill, gathering near seashore. |
Which of the following is NOT related to the potentially troubling sign?
| A．The usual habitat of deep-water animals is badly polluted. |
| B．Many animals could be easily eaten by their enemies. |
| C．Masses of fishes could die due to lack of oxygen. |
| D．Some dolphins are frolicking in marshes. |
The environmental disaster was caused by.
| A．the damage of the Mexico Gulf ecosystem |
| B．the lack of environmental sense of BP |
| C．the nearly two-month-old oil spill |
| D．the crowding marine life |
What is John Hocevar’s attitude towards the disaster?
| A．Worried. | B．Disappointed. | C．Depressed. | D．Hesitant. |
From the passage, we can infer that.
| A．Bp will pay much money according to the number of dead wildlife there |
| B．marine scientists have seen some strange phenomena |
| C．the disaster has little influence on dolphins |
| D．a three-person crew reached no conclusion |
Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade.
One day at lunch time, I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish（金枪鱼）sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria.
I was thrilled. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family, and we always carried our lunch and brought the bah back home to use again the next day. My sandwiches were either bologna（大腊肠）or tuna fish. It rarely varied beyond that.
You can understand my delight when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch.
When we finished lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich.
Oh, I couldn’t wait to get home and tell my Mama that form now on I wanted tuna fish on Fridays. After my Mama understood why, she gladly fixed tuna fish for me on Friday. She even fixed it on brown bread because she knew Mrs. Amatuli liked brown bread.
From then on every Friday I cold get in line with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the ids complained about cafeteria food—it tasted divine to me!
I realize now that Mrs. Amatuli could have fixed herself a tuna sandwich of Friday. But she bought my sandwich because she saw a little girll who was thrilled over the simple act of having a hot lunch.
I will never forget her for her compassion and generosity.Which of the following can best describe Mrs. Amatuli?
| A．Lovely. | B．Strict. | C．Clever. | D．Kind. |
The author didn’t buy her lunch at the cafeteria because.
| A．her lunch was various | B．her family was very poor |
| C．her mother could prepare it at home | D．her teacher gave her a hot lunch |
After lunch that day, Mrs. Amatuli explained.
| A．she was Catholic | B．Catholic ate meat on Fridays |
| C．Catholic ate fish on Fridays | D．she liked brown bread |
The underlined word “divine” in Paragraph 8 means.
| A．delicious | B．bad | C．typical | D．hot |
What might be the best title for the passage?
| A．My grateful mother | B．My considerate teacher |
C．My boring lunch | D．A thrilled student |
Are you 
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Figures indicate an ever- increasing crime rate but it is only too easy to imagine “it will never happen
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72. It seems that people who live in large cities are ________.
more often sufferers than those living in other areas
of the opinion that numbers are wrong
twice as rich as people living in other areas
too poor to afford the protect system
73. The writers of this text want to give the impression that the PROTECT ALARMS system is _________.
A. free of charge
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74. The article shows that having an alarm system will _______.
show burglars that you have something worth stealing
persuade burglars not to break into your house
make the burglar’s job less difficult
persuade burglars to try again another time.
75. In order to find out more information about this alarm system, one can _______.
A. buy a leaflet B. write enclosing a stamped, addressed envelope
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