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Jimmy is an automotive mechanic, but he lost his job a few months ago. He has a good heart, but always feared applying for a new job.
One day, he gathered up all his strength and decided to attend a job interview.  His appointment was at 10 am and it was already 8:30. While waiting for a bus to the office where he was supposed to be interviewed, he saw an elderly man wildly kicking the tyre of his car.  Obviously there was something wrong with the car. Jimmy immediately went up to lend him a hand. When Jimmy finished working on the car,  the old man asked him how much he should pay for the service. Jimmy said there was no need to pay him; he just helped someone in need,  and he had to rush for an interview.  Then the old man said, “Well, I could take you to the office for your interview. It's the least I could do. Please,  I insist.” Jimmy agreed. 
Upon arrival, Jimmy found a long line of applicants waiting to be interviewed. Jimmy still had some grease on him after the car repair, but he did not have much time to wash it off or have a change of shirt. One by one, the applicants left the interviewer's office with disappointed looks on their faces. Finally his name was called.  The interviewer was sitting on a large chair facing the office window. Rocking the chair back and forth, he asked,  “Do you really need to be interviewed?” Jimmy's heart sank.“With the way I look now, how could I possibly pass this interview ?” he thought to himself.
Then the interviewer turned the chair and to Jimmy's surprise,  it was the old man he helped earlier in the morning.  It turned out he was the General Manager of the company. 
“ Sorry I had to keep you waiting,  but I was pretty sure I made the right dicision to have you as part of our workforce before you even stepped into this office. I just know you'd be a trustworthy worker.  Congratulations!” Jimmy sat down and they shared a cup of welldeserved coffee as he landed himself a new job.
Why did Jimmy apply for a new job?

A.He was out of work.
B.He was bored with his job.
C.He wanted a higher position
D.He hoped to find a better boss

What did Jimmy see on the way to the interview?

A.A friend's car had a flat tyre.
B.A wild man was pushing a car.
C.A terrible car accident happened.
D.An old man's car broke down.

Why did the old man offer Jimmy a ride?

A.He was also to be interviewed.
B.He needed a travelling companion.
C.He always helped people in need.
D.He was thankful to Jimmy.

How did Jimmy feel on hearing the interviewer's question?

A.He was sorry for the other applicants.
B.There was no hope for him to get the job.
C.He regretted helping the old man.
D.The interviewer was very rude.

What can we learn from Jimmy's experience?

A.Where there is a will, there is a way.
B.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C.Good is rewarded with good.
D.Two heads are better than one.
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Paris in the springtime was, is and always will be, something rather special. Why not experience it for yourself with this excellent break for four days? This attractive city has something to offer to everyone and with prices at just £129.
Your break begins with comfortable bus transfer (运送) from local pick-up points and travel to Paris is via cross-channel ferry, arriving at your hotel in the evening. The Ibis is an excellent quality hotel with private equipments in all rooms: satellite TV, radio, telephone and alarm clock. It has a bar and restaurant and is situated about two miles south of Notre Dame enabling you to explore Paris with ease.
The following day, after continental breakfast (included), the bus takes you on a comprehensive sightseeing tour of the city, during which you will see the Eiffel Tower, Champs Elysees, L’Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, in fact almost every famous landmark you have ever heard of. You then leave Paris and take a short drive to the magnificent Palace of Versailles, the home of Louis XIV. The tour ends mid-afternoon back in Paris where you will have the remainder of the day at your leisure. In the evening there is a “Paris by Night” tour showing you the beautiful buildings with bright lights.
Day three takes you to Montmarter, perhaps the most attractive quarter of Paris and home of the Sacre Coeur and the Moulin Rouge. In the afternoon you are free to explore this beautiful city as you wish, perhaps a pleasure voyage on the River Seine, wander around the beautiful gardens or look among the antique shops(古董店). In the evening you will have the opportunity to visit the best nightclub in the city, the splendid Paradis Latain. On the final day it’s back to the UK via channel ferry.
Included in the price of £129 per person :
●Return comfortable bus travel to Paris
●Return ferry crossings
●3 nights housing in a twin bedded room in a Central Paris hotel with private facilities
●Continental breakfast during your stay
●Guided sightseeing tour of “Paris by Day” and Paris by Night”
●Visit to the Chateau of Versailles (admission not included )
●Tour around Montmartre
●Services of experienced bi-lingual tour guide at all times
64. What is the purpose of this passage ?

A.To show the price of traveling to Paris .   
B.To tell tourists the routes to Paris.
C.To introduce the city of Paris.
D.To attract tourists to Paris.

65. During the stay in Paris , the tourists will .

A.have a “Paris by Night” tour on the first evening
B.live in a hotel two miles away from Paris
C.have free time for half a day
D.have a pleasure voyage on the River Seine together

66. What does the underlined word quarter mean in the passage ?

A.An area of a town.
B.A period of 15 minutes.
C.A coin used in the US and Canada worth 25 cents.
D.One of four equal parts into which something can be divided.

67. According to the passage , which of the following is true ?

A.The Palace of Versailles is not in the center of Paris.
B.The tourists can telephone in the Ibis without paying.
C.It will take you a long time to get to Montmartre from Paris.
D.The tourists will spend the night in the antique shops on the third day.

It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.
I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said “I’ll pencil it in my diary”, and my friend said “You can ink it in”, meaning that it was a firm arrangement not a tentative one!
Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology. An obvious example is the word fax, which is a shortening of facsimile originally, an exact copy of a book or document. We all got used to sending and receiving faxes, and then soon started talking about faxing something and promising we'd fax it immediately. So, nouns turn into verbs in two easy stages. Then along came email, and we were soon all emailing each other madly. How did we do without it? I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.
Email reminds me, of course, of my computer and its software, which has produced another couple of new verbs. On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I'll want to look at again, thus saving all the effort of remembering their addresses and calling them up from scratch. I can do the same thing on my PC, but there I don't bookmark; I favorite—coming from “favorite pages”, so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun. I wasn’t really sure whether people said this, but someone told me recently that they had favorited a site I was looking for and so they could easily give me its address.
In the late 1980s I noticed that lots of my friends had acquired pagers, and kept saying things like “I’ll page you as soon as I know what time we’re meeting”. They couldn't say it to me, though; I refused to have one. So my children bought me a mobile phone, now known simply as a mobile and I had to learn yet more new verbs. I can message someone, that is, I can leave a message (either spoken or written)for them on their phone.Or I can text them, write a few words suggesting when and where to meet, for example. How long will it be before I can mobile them, that is, phone them using my mobile? I haven’t heard that verb yet, but I’m sure I will soon. Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!  
60. “I’ll pencil it in my diary” in the second paragraph probably means .

A.it was a firm arrangement        
B.it was an uncertain arrangement
C.the arrangement should be written as a diary
D.he prefers a pencil to a pen

61. A website address can be easily found if it has been .

A.emailed B.messaged C.favorited D.texted

62. Which of the following has not been used as a verb yet?

A.message B.page C.email D.mobile

63. The best title for this passage is.

A.New Verbs from Old Nouns    
B.The Development of the English language
C.New Technology and New words
D.Technology and Language

If you’re training for a marathon , a proper plan for water intake (摄入) is important. Of course, there’s the risk of dehydration (脱水). But athletes now know they can also get into trouble by drinking too much. Too much water intake can lower levels of sodium (钠) in the blood . The death of a 28-year-old woman following the Boston Marathon caught the attention of many runners and led to new research.
Experts advise long distance runners to replace the liquids they sweat out. Their goal is to try to keep someone from not getting dehydrated by more than 2 percent of their body weight.
One technique for deciding how much water you need is to get the exact numbers. Runners have to weight themselves before and after a run to determine how much water they’ve lost. If their weight drops by more than 2 percent, they have not drunk enough water.
Hyponatremia occurs when runners drink so much water that blood salt levels drop off. A study published last year tested 488 runners who completed the Boston Marathon and found 13 percent of them had dangerously low blood salt levels. The first sign that runners may notice is slightly swelling in the hands. They can’t get their rings off, and then they might feel sick. They may not remember where they are. In fact, most runners get enough salt to get back to normal levels by eating just one meal after a run. Contrary to the old advice that runners should drink as much as they can to prevent dehydration , the new research has shown that the body is a remarkable machine that actually tells you via thirst when you need water .
56. The author of this passage is primarily concerned with.

A.the signs and treatment for dehydration
B.the long distance runners who need help
C.how to manage water intake during a marathon
D.a 28-year-old woman who died after a Boston Marathon

57. Why do runners have to weigh themselves before and after a run ?

A.They can improve their performance in a run.
B.They can learn how much salt there is in the blood.
C.They can know the quantity of water they’ve lost during a run.
D.They can decide what kind of water they should take during a run.

58. What conclusion can we draw from the passage ?

A.Taking much salt during a run can avoid selling in the body.
B.Either too much or too little of water intake is harmful.
C.A rich meal is helpful to our performance in a run.
D.We should take enough salt during a run.

59.According the passage, which of the following statements is correct ?

A.Too much water intake→blood sodium levels ↓→dehydration.
B.Too much water intake→blood salt levels ↓→hyponatremia .
C.No water intake→blood sodium levels↑→hyponatremia .
D.No water intake →blood salt levels ↓→hyponatrenmia .

America is grooving older. Fify years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United Satates were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways - education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society-one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior(行为) is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time tells ads it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29 -year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing. Many people say, “I’m much younger than my mother or my father was at my age.” No one says “act your Age” anymore. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
72. It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America _____.

A.has made people feel younger
B.has changed people’s social position
C.has changed people’s understanding of age
D.has slowed down the country’s social development

73. The underlined word “one” refers to_______ .

A.a society B.America C.a place D.population

74. “Act your age” means people should ____ .

A.be active when they are old
B.do the right thing at the right age
C.show respect for their parents young or old
D.take more physical exercise suitable to their age

75. If a 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm the writer of the text would most probably consider it _________.

A.normal B.wonderful C.unbelievable D.unreasonable

Harald Kaas was sixty. His back became rounded, and he bent a little. His forehead, always of the broadest-no one else’s hat would fit him - was now one of the highest, that is to say, he had lost all his teeth, which were strong though small, and blackened by smoking. Now, instead of “deuce take it” he said “deush take it”. He had always held his hands half closed as though grasping something; now they stiffened so that he could never open them fully. The little finger of his ldft hand had been bitten off. According to Harald’s version of the story, the fellow swallowed the piece on the spot.
He was fond of showing off the ldft part, and it often served as an introduction to the history of brave adventures, which became greater and greater and greater as he grew older and quieter. His small sharp eyes were deep set and looked at one with great intensity. There wsa power in his individuality. He has no lack of self-respect.
His house, raised on an old foundation, looked out to the south over many islands; farther out were more islands and the open sea. Its eastern wing was barely half furnished, and the western inhabited by Harald Kaas. These wings were connected by a gallery, behind which were the fields and woods to the north.
In the gallery itself were heads of bears, wolves, foxes and lynxes and stuffed birds from land and sea. Skins and guns hung on the walls of the front room. The inner rooms were also full of skins and filled with the smell of wild animals and tobacco-smoke. Harald himself called it “man-smell”; no one who had once put his nose inside could ever forget it. Valuable and beautiful skins hung on the walls and sat, and walked on skins, and each one of them was a subject of conversation. Harald Kaas, seated in his log chair by the fireside, his feet on the bearskin, opened his shirt to show the scars on his hairy chest (and what scars they were) which had been made by a bears teeth, when he had driven his knife, right up to the end, into the monster’s heart. All the tables, and cupboards, and carved chairs listened in their silence.
68.Who or what most probably bit harald Kaass’ little finger off?

A.On of his fellow hunters
B.An adversary in a boxing match
C.A wild animal
D.One of his hunting dogs



69.Which of the following pictures shows the right description of Harald Kaas’ home?


70.What can we say about Harald Kaas in the story?

A.Brave and strong now , he was the best bunter in the neighborhood.
B.Old and lonely now, he never forgot his great past hunting life.
C.Always greedy and cruel, he was rich by hunting and selling animals.
D.Still active and busy, he managed to protect his neighborhood by killing animals.

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