A California man who was feeling sick almost died recently from a shocking cause.
26-year-old Luis Ortiz went to a hospital because of a headache and nausea(恶心，作呕). When doctors examined him, they were shocked to find a tapeworm larva(绦虫幼虫) in his brain. The story gets stranger. The larva was still alive.
The creature had caused a cyst(囊肿) to form inside his head. The cyst was restricting the flow of liquids to different areas of his brain. The situation was so serious that doctors said they had to perform an emergency operation to remove the larva.
A doctor who operated on Ortiz told him he had only 30 minutes to live. When the doctor pulled the worm out of his head, it was still moving.
Luis Ortiz was a student at California State University in Sacramento. He began experiencing headaches in late August. But Ortiz said he did not think the headaches were serious.
In September, he visited a friend and his parents in another city. That is when the pain got worse. His mother saw Ortiz throwing up and took him to a hospital emergency room.
The doctors saved Ortiz's life. However, the surgery also affected him. Ortiz had to drop out of school and move back home. For now, he is not permitted to work or drive a vehicle.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has about 1,000 reported cases of tapeworms each year. The CDC adds that tapeworms are more common in developing countries with poor public health systems.
The best way to avoid a tapeworm infection (感染)is to wash fruits and vegetables. Also, make sure meat is cooked thoroughly. The CDC suggests cooking all meats to an internal temperature of at least 63 degrees Celsius.
What caused Luis Ortiz to feel sick and headaches?
| A．Dirty food eaten in August. |
| B．Travelling for a long way, |
| C．A living creature in his brain. |
| D．Uncooked meat eaten by him. |
If the doctors didn’t have an emergency operation on him , Luis Ortiz was likely to ________ _ .
| A．die of cancer | B．live for only half an hour |
| C．finish studying in school | D．pass the driving tests |
How should people avoid infecting tapeworms?
| A．By washing fruits and vegetable. |
| B．By boiling plates and bowls before meals. |
| C．By cooking meats to at least 63 °C outside, |
| D．By improving the development of economy. |
What did the writer think of the cause of Luis Ortiz’s disease?
| A．Quite frightening. | B．Very dangerous. |
| C．Rather puzzling. | D．Extremely surprising. |
After more than a year of bitter political debate, President Obama sat down in the White House East Room on March 23 and signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law with a pen，and then another pen，and another．Obama used 22 pens to sign the $938 billion health care bill．
The practice of using different pens to sign important 
legislation（法规）dates at least as far back as Franklin Roosevelt．The reason is fairly simple．The pen used to sign historic legislation itself becomes a historical artifact．The more pens a President uses, the more thank-you gifts he can offer to those who helped create that piece of history．The White House often give pens to supporters of the newly signed legislation．When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he reportedly used more than 75 pens and gave one of the first ones to Martin Luther King Jr．And in 1996, President Clinton gave the four pens he used to sign the Line-Item Veto bill to those most likely to appreciate the bill's consequence.
Once they're given away, some pens end up in museums; others are displayed proudly in recipients'(接受者) offices or homes．But they sometimes appear again, like in the 2008 presidential campaign（竞选活动）, when John Macain promised to use the same pen given to him by President Reagan to cut pork from the federal budget．
Not every President goes for the multipen signature, however．President George W．Bush preferred signing bills with only one pen and then offering several unused "gift" pens as souvenirs．We can learn from paragraph 1 that the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act．
| A．has been passed easily | B．was put forward one year ago |
| C．becomes law in the USA | D．is unimportant |
How are the pens dealt with after being used by President Obama?
| A．Supporters of the newly signed legislation are likely to get some of them. |
| B．Obama will keep them. |
| C．They will be just set aside |
| D．They will be sold to the public at a high price． |
What can we learn about John Macain?
A．He was ever President in the USA.
B．He took part in the 2008 presidential campaign.
C．He never used the pen given by Reagan.
D．He was only concerned about his own business．What does this passage mainly tell us ?
A．Obama signed the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act．
B．It is a practice to use multiple pens to sign important legislation in the USA．
C．Pens are necessary in the signature.
D．All the presidents like the multipen signature.
Have you ever wanted to travel back through time and see what life was like at the dawn（起始） of man? Well, museums can make history come alive. And one museum in particular can take you on an exciting journey from the beginning of human culture to the present day.
It is the British Museum. Being one of the largest museums in the world, it is home to over 7 million objects from all the world’s continents. While most of us may not have the opportunity to visit London, we can catch a glimpse of the treasures it holds in Beijing. More than 100 cultural relics will be on display in the Palace Museum. Named “Britain and the World”, a range of pencil sketches (素描), watercolor paintings, sculptures and many other objects have traveled to China.
There will be several Chinese objects on show. But “they were obtained by the British Museum before 1830 mainly by trade,” said Ma Jige, deputy director of the Exhibition Department of the Palace Museum.
In fact, there are more than 23,000 Chinese relics in the British Museum, including national treasures like gems (宝石), artwork and ancient bronze ware objects.
The museum is famed for its exquisite Chinese paintings. Picture of Lady Officials (《女史箴图》) by Gu Kaizhi, a top painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317-420), is there. The British Museum also holds 13,700 Buddhist records from the Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province. From the passage we can learn that ________.
| A．the British Museum will be moved to Beijing |
| B．pictures of some objects belonging to the British Museum will be taken to Beijing |
| C．pictures of the British Museum will be on show in Beijing |
| D．some objects of the British Museum will be on show in Beijing |
The Chinese objects on show were mainly _______ by the British Museum.
| A．stolen |
B．bought |
C．borrowed |
D．robbed |
How many Chinese relics are there in the British Museum?
| A．About 100. |
B．About 1,830. |
C．About 13,700. |
D． Over 23,000. |
In Japan’s capital city of Tokyo, earthquake danger limits（限制）the height of buildings. The city has spread out so far and the traffic has become so heavy that it is very difficult to go from one place to another. The price of the land, too, has skyrocketed. All these explains why a group of Japanese land developers came to the conclusion（结论）that there was nowhere to go but down. So far they have dug out space underground for fifteen shopping centres.
What are some of the advantages（优势）of shopping and eating underground? Clean air is one of them. The city of Tokyo has one of the most serious smog problems in the world. Another advantage is that you escape the ever-present threat（威胁）of traffic accidents on the city’s busy streets. Still another is the convenience（便利）of getting around: you are usually right next to, or even in, a subway station. And you can even spend the night underground if you like. The Kibosh station, for example, in downtown Tokyo, has a hotel with a bar, restaurant, and barbershop.The reason why buildings can not be very high in Tokyo is ____.
| A．that the information about high buildings is limited in Tokyo |
| B．that the workers haven’t mastered enough modern science and technology |
| C．the earthquake |
| D．the heavy traffic |
What’s the meaning of “skyrocket”? It means “____”.
| A．go up sharply | B．be as high as that of a rocket |
| C．fall rapidly | D．be as low as that of a rocket |
So far how many shopping centers underground have there been?
| A．15 | B．50 | C．More than 15 | D．More than 50 |
What are the advantages of shopping and eating underground
| A．Less air pollution, the convenience of shopping. |
| B．Less air pollution, the convenience of shopping, and less traffic accidents. |
| C．Clean air and the convenience of getting around. |
| D．Clean air, less accidents’ threat, and the convenience of getting around. |
The passage mainly tells us______.
| A．the capital of Japan |
| B．the land and its limits |
| C．the use of space underground in Tokyo |
| D．how to make full use of the land |
For many years, no one could communicate with people who had been born without hearing. These deaf people were not able to use a spoken language.
But, beginning in the 1700s, the deaf were taught a special language. Using the language, they could share thoughts
and ideas with others. The language they used was a language without sound. It was a sign language.
How did this sign language work? The deaf were taught to make certain movements using their hands, faces and bodies. Their movements stood for things and ideas. A man might move his forefinger across his lips. This meant, “You are not telling the truth.” He might tap his chin with three fingers. This meant, “my uncle.” The deaf were also taught to use a finger alphabet. They used their fingers to make the letters of the alphabet. In this way, they spelled out words. Some deaf people could spell out words at a speed of 130 words per minute.
Sign language and finger spel
ling are not used as much as they once were. Today the deaf are taught to understand others by watching their lips. They are also taught how to speak.The story does not say so, but it makes you think that_______.
| A．the deaf must have special teachers |
| B．there is still no way to communicate with the deaf |
| C．deaf people make signs to make a living |
| D．deaf people are not as clever as normal people |
On the whole the story is about______.
| A．how the deaf communicate | B．leaning to spell |
| C．teaching the deaf to speak | D．writing sign language |
How did sign language help the deaf?
| A．It helped them to learn to read. |
| B．It helped them communicate with other people. |
| C．The deaf could understand Indian sign language. |
| D．The deaf could move their thumbs across their lips |
Which of these sentences do you think is right?
| A．Deaf people draw signs. |
| B．Deaf people read with their fingers. |
| C．Many deaf people now can speak. |
| D．Deaf people teach themselves a sign language. |
Habits, whether good or bad, are gradually formed. When a person does a certain thing again, he is impelled(推进，敦促) by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly; thus a habit is formed. Once a habit is formed, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to get rid of. It is therefore very important that we should pay great attention to the formation (形成) of habits. Children often form bad habits, some of which remain with them as long as they live. Older persons also form bad habits as long as they live, and sometimes become ruined by them..
There are other habits which, when formed in early life, are of great help. Many successful men say that much of their success has something to do with certain habits in early life, such as early rising, honesty and thoroughness(周详).
Among the habits which children should not form are laziness, lying, stealing and so on. These are all easily formed habits. Unfortunately older persons form habits which ought to have been avoided.
We ought to keep from all these old habits, and try to form such habits as will prove good for ourselves and others.Habits, whether good or bad, are formed_______, _______ everyone knows.
| A．day by day; and |
B．gradually; as |
| C．gradually; that |
D．century after century; as |
Why should we pay much attention to the formation of habits?
| A．Because habits are of great help to every one of us. |
| B．Because a man can never get rid of a habit. |
| C．It is because we are forced to do them again and again. |
| D．It is because it’s hard and even not possible to smooth them away |
The bad habits formed by __________
| A．children sometimes stay in all their lives |
| B．older people sometimes can kill them |
| C．persons sometimes can remain with them |
| D．younger people sometimes can break them |