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There were two things in the world that Ghagra Geeta Bali hated. The first was the way£¬Rani£¬the domestic help£®combed her hair£®The second was£¬you guessed it£¬her name. She hated her name so much that she prayed to god every night£ºDear god£¬let me be born again. So I can have a name like Rita or Preeti£®A short£¬smart one-word name.
On Tuesday£¬Ghagra Geeta Bali and her mother went for their usual shopping. There was a long queue of children just outside the record store£®They went loser to look. It was yet another scheme to sell a few audio cassettes£®Everyone who bought a cassette qualified for the scheme.
In this case£¬the artist whose songs were featured on the cassette was a young sensation called Malik Fafidabadi£¬a great favorite with teenagers. Ghagra Geeta Bali was no exception.
A friendly young man was writing down the names of the people who wanted to participate in the scheme£®Out of this long list Malik would pick one name£¬and the chosen one would get to meet him£®plus of course£¬win many freebies£¨ÔùÆ·£©.
But when her mother asked her to participate£¬Ghagra Geeta Bali said no. She didn't want to speak out her name in front of so many people and make herself the butt£¨Ð¦ÁÏ£©of amusement. But mothers being mothers£¬she just went up to the man and told him in firm tones£º¡°Please enter my daughter's name. It is Ghagra Geeta Bali.¡±
¡°It is what?¡± the man asked£¬naturally a little taken aback.
¡°G-h-a-g-r-a G-e-e-t-a B-a-l-i. There she is£¬¡±she replied while pointing to her daughter. The crowd standing around also turned to stare. All Ghagra Geeta Bali wanted then was for the earth to open up and swallow her.
That did not happen£®But the following week she received a call£®It was from the recording company that had announced the scheme. And they told her that she was the chosen one
¡°It is all because of your name£¬¡± said the public relations  man  who had called.¡°Mr Faridabadi took one look at it in the list and said that he couldn't wait to meet the brave girl bearing it£®¡±
56£®Ghagra Geeta Bali didn't like her name because__________
A£®it would bring her a lot of trouble    B£®it was too long and not beautiful
C£®it would make her angry          D£®it was too ugly and dull
57£®When the girl saw the crowd turn to stare at her£¬she felt_________
A£®scared    B£®shocked             C£®embarrassed     D£®disappointed
58. What is the message of the story?
A£®Mother's love makes all the difference
B£®Children should always trust their parents£®
C£®One should be brave to meet anything strange
D£®Something that one thinks is bad may turn out good

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Roland was a carpenter in America. He and Sheila had three   36  ¡ªtwo boys and baby Jessica. The baby had been in and out of the hospital for the last year because of infections and   37  problems. She was very weak and sick. The doctors were not   38  that she would live another year. w.w
39  Jessica was expensive. The family was deep in   40 . Things were bad. Roland saw no light at the   41  of this tunnel (ËíµÀ). Then he saw an ad in the newspaper: ¡°Security guards   42 , $150,000 a year. ¡±   
He called the number. The line was busy, but he   43  calling and finally got through. He was worried that the jobs were all taken,   44  they told him plenty of jobs were still available. They said they would give him two weeks of   45  in Texas. Then they would   46  him to Iraq for his assignment.
Roland told Sheila he had to take this job. He knew it was   47 £»he might get injured or killed, but the money was too good.   48  , the family would have full medical benefits,   49  would enable the baby to get the care she needed. Roland said if he survived the first year, he would   50  work there for one more year.
Sheila was   51 . She asked, ¡°What if you get killed? What are we going to do without you?¡±
¡°You can¡¯t   52  like that, honey,¡± he said. ¡°You¡¯ve got to think   53 . Think about how well off we¡¯ll be in two or three years after I bring back all that   54 . This is the best thing I could do for this family.¡± Sheila   55  him and sobbed (ÎØÑʵØ˵) . ¡°I don¡¯t want you to go.¡±
Roland flew to Houston five days later. w.w
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37£®A£®other             B£®another          C£®puzzling         D£®strange
38£®A£®afraid             B£®satisfied          C£®confident        D£®sad
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Every year there are hundreds of earthquakes in different parts of the world. In Sept.1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were both destroyed by an earthquake and the fires that followed it. They had to be completely rebuilt. One of the most serious earthquakes was in China¡¯s Shanxi Province in 1556. It killed almost one million people.
We measure an earthquake¡¯s strength on the Richter scale. The Richter scale was introduced in 1935 in Southern California in the USA. It measures earthquakes on a scale of one to ten. Any earthquake measuring five or more is usually serious.
The earth¡¯s crust (µØ¿Ç) is made up of layers of rock called plates. As these plates move, they sometimes crash against each other, causing the crust to quake. In cities such as Tokyo, where small quakes happen quite often, many modern buildings are designed to be flexible so when the earth moves, they move with it.
Earthquakes can also break up gas or oil pipes. This can cause fires to break out, which can do as much damage as the earthquake itself.
Another effect of earthquakes is tsunamis (º£Ð¥). These are huge waves created by earthquakes beneath the sea. They can be many metres high and cause great damage to coastal towns and cities. China, Japan, Russia and the USA have the highest occurrence (·¢Éú) of earthquakes in the world.
Knowing about     1  
Two serious earthquakes in   2     
An earthquake and   3   fires destroyed both Tokyo and Yokohama in Sept. 1923.
In 1556, a very serious earthquake   4   in China¡¯s Shanxi Province.
The way to  5  an earthquake¡¯s strength
People can measure an earthquake¡¯s strength on the Richter scale of one to ten,     in 1935 in the USA. If an earthquake measures five or more, it¡¯s usually serious.
The  7  of earthquakes
As the plates, which form the earth¡¯s   8  , move, they sometimes crash against each other, causing the crust to quake.
Some   9  of earthquakes
If earthquakes break up gas or oil pipes,   10    will happen, which can do as much damage as the earthquake itself.
Tsunami is another effect of earthquakes.

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I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn't believe it, and I read it again. Then perhaps I just stared at it, at the newsprint spelling out his name, spelling out the story. I stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared(¡¡Ïì) outside.
It was not to be believed and I kept telling myself that, as I walked from the subway station to the high school. And at the same time I couldn't doubt it. I was scared, scared for Sonny. He became real to me again. A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long, while I taught my classes algebra. It was a special kind of ice. It kept melting, sending trickles(ä¸ä¸Ï¸Á÷)of ice water all up and down my veins(Ѫ¹Ü), but it never got less. Sometimes it hardened and seemed to expand until I felt my heart was going to come spilling(Òç³ö) out or that I was going to choke or scream. This would always be at a moment when I was remembering some specific thing Sonny had once said or done.
When he was about as old as the boys in my classes his face had been bright and open; and he'd had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness. I wondered what he looked like now. He had been picked up, the evening before, in a sudden search on an apartment down-town, for selling and using heroin.
I couldn't believe it: but what I mean by that is that I couldn't find any room for it anywhere inside me. I had kept it outside me for a long time. I hadn't wanted to know. I had had suspicions(»³ÒÉ), but I didn't name them, I kept putting them away. I told myself that Sonny was wild, but he wasn't crazy. And he'd always been a good boy, he hadn't ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem. I didn't want to believe that I'd ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out, in the condition I'd already seen so many others.
67. The underlined word ¡°it¡± in Paragraph 1 refers to ____.
A. the swinging light of the subway car    B. the news of Sonny¡¯s being arrested
C. everything trapped in the darkness       D. newspaper
68. We can learn from the passage that ____.
A. the news on the paper was unbelievable.
B. I was too scared to believe the news
C. I was ill because a great block of ice was in my belly
D. Sonny and I hadn¡¯t seen each other for a long time
69. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Sonny and I were brothers.
B. Sonny had always been a good boy before being arrested.
C. I didn¡¯t care about Sonny.
D. Many young men turned bad in Harlem.
70. Which of the following can best describe the author¡¯s feelings towards Sonny?
   A. Concern, affection, expectation.            B. Concern, hatred, expectation.
C. Affection, regret, sympathy.                  D. Regret, understanding, sympathy.

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Are you interested in ¡°Dream of the Red Mansion¡± (Hong Lou Meng)? Listen to a lecture on this classical novel.
Venue: National Museum of Chinese Modern Literature (Beijing)
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Price: free
Tel: 010 ¨C 84615522
B
¡°Jiaguwen¡± is among the oldest pictographic characters in the world£®How much do you know about it? Get all the answers at this free lecture.
Venue: Dongcheng District Library (Beijing)
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Price: free
Tel: 010 ¨C 64013356
C
Former United Nations interpreter Professor Wang Ruojin speaks about her experiences at the UN and shares her understanding of the cultural differences between East and West.
Venue: National Library of China (Beijing)
Time: 1:30 p.m. ¨C 4:00 p. m.
Price: free
Tel: 010 ¨C 68488047
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Qi Baishi, one of China¡¯s greatest modern painters, was also a poet, calligrapher(Êé·¨¼Ò) and seal-cutter(¿ÌÓ¡Õß). Can you appreciate his works? Then come to spend the time with us.
Venue: Beijing Art Academy
Time: 9:00 a.m. ¨C 11:00 a.m.
Price: 10 yuan
Tel: 010 - 65023390
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It is the year of the Dog, and you can see ¡°Fu¡± everywhere. But how much do you know about dogs ¨C man¡¯s best friend? What is ¡°Fu¡± and where does it come from? Why do people hang ¡°Fu¡± character upside down on the door? Get all the answers from this free lecture.
Venue: Capital Library (Beijing)
Time: 2:00 p. m.
Price: free
Tel: 010 - 67358114
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About 160 cultural relics from Guangdong, Macao and Hong Kong are on display to April 15th. Meanwhile experts will talk about the important roles these three cities have played in the past two thousand years of Sino¨CWestern exchanges.
Venue: Beijing Art Museum
Time: 2:00 p. m. ¨C 5:00 p. m.
Price: 20 yuan, students 10 yuan
Tel: 010 - 83659337
 
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71. Alice is now studying in Beijing University, and she is especially interested in Chinese writing. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, writing poems and is fond of sharing her pieces with her classmates.
72. Simon comes from Egypt. He is now studying in Beijing Art Academy. He shows great interest in Chinese ancient characters. Now he wants to know much about it.
73. Lora and Peter, visiting professors from Australia, are both crazy about Chinese traditional culture. At weekends they like to call on Chinese families to learn about Chinese festivals as well as their history.
74. Edward is a senior student in Beijing Foreign Language University. He likes traveling very much and has made up his mind to work as an interpreter for some joint¨Cventure enterprises (ºÏ×ÊÆóÒµ).
75. Steve and Mark are both studying in the Chinese Department of China¡¯s Renmin University. They want to do some research on Chinese ancient literature.

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I'm really nervous opening Chatroulette £¨a website£©£®I don't know if I'm more scared of the possibility of coming face-to-face with a naked £¨ÂãÌåµÄ£© guy doing improper things, or the possibility of having to speak to someone normal£®But it's that uncertainty that's caused the "game" to explode into an Internet phenomenon£®
So, I hesitantly click "play"£®My face appears in a small box to the left of the screen£®I'm a 22-year-old guy, wearing jeans and a T-shirt, and sitting in my warmly lit bedroom ¡ªnot too threatening, I think£®Believing I look welcoming and friendly, I open all features: visual, audio and text£®The user can disable these at any time if they feel uncomfortable£®
Quickly I find myself face-to-face with my first "partner"£®A guy with glasses is staring back at me£®He looks like he spends too much time in front of the computer£®"Hey", I say, "how are you going?" "Good," says the guy£®Sensing that he was not going to be very talkative, I hit the "next" button£®
Just like that, I'm thrown across the world into someone else's bedroom£®This time it looks like a middle-aged woman£®I must have hit gold because 85 percent of Chatroulette users are male, according to the Wall Street Journal£®She's wearing sunglasses and smiles back£®Before I can even say a word, she "nexts" me£®"WHAT?!"
Then, I fly through the Internet and arrive at my next partner£®My nightmare, a man is sitting in his computer chair half-naked taking off his pants£®Argghh! "Next, next, next!" For the next 30 minutes I keep my cursor £¨¹â±ê£© over the "next" button£®My experiences continue to be short, shocking, and largely uninteresting£®I discouragingly hit "next" after seeing another naked man, and decide to end my session and close the window£®This wasn't "the new social media experience" I was hoping for£®Maybe it was just a little bit too random £¨Ëæ»úµÄ£©£®
64£®It is the author's __________ that leads him into Chatroulette£®
A£®curiosity          B£®unwillingness    C£®enthusiasm          D£®ignorance
65£®The underlined word "disable" in Paragraph 2 means __________£®
A£®store                  B£®close                C£®misuse                D£®copy
66£®Among all the partners, __________ seemed to be the least interested in talking with the author.
A£®the guy with glasses                      B£®the middle-aged woman
C£®the man in his computer chair            D£®the last man mentioned
67£®What is the author's attitude toward Charoulette?
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Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. He died in 2005 at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. For sixty years, he created one dramatic work after another. Miller won many awards for his plays. Among them were a Pulitzer Prize, New York Drama Critics¡¯ Circle Prizes and Tony Awards. In 1984, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. honored him for his lifetime work in drama.
Arthur Miller grew up in New York. His father, Isidore Miller, made clothing and operated a store. But the father lost his money in the great economic depression in the 1930s. So Arthur worked at many jobs to earn money for college. Miller won an award for writing plays while at school.
Miller returned home to New York after completing his studies. In 1944, Arthur Miller¡¯s first major play was performed on Broadway. It was called The Man Who Had All the Luck. However, the play did not bring him good luck. It had only four performances. But his second Broadway play, All My Sons, was a major success. It won several awards in 1947.
Miller ¡®s great play, Death of a Salesman, opened on Broadway in 1949. He was thirty-three years old when he wrote it. The play tells the story of the failure of a salesman, Willy Loman. The action opens on the last day of Willy¡¯s life. He has been dismissed from his jobs as a traveling salesman. He also recognizes that he has failed as a father. He kills himself before the play is over. Death of a Salesman had a big influence on the American public. Many people saw their own lives in Willy Loman, the victim of broken dreams. It has been translated into about thirty languages and performed around the world.
Arthur Miller once wrote that when he was young he imagined that with the possible exception of a doctor saving a life, ¡°Writing a worthy play was the most important thing a human being could do.¡± Theater owners on Broadway agreed. On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theatres darkened for a minute in honor of him.
63. Miller began to show his talent in writing plays _______ .
A. in his teens                        B. when he was at school
C. after his marriage                   D. in New York
64. Which of the following is TRUE about Arthur Miller?
A. When he was young, Arthur Miller worked hard to be a doctor.         
B. The Man Who Had All the Luck brought Arthur Miller neither fame nor fortune.           
C. All My Sons was the first major work of Arthur Miller ever performed on Broadway.            D. The John F, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honored Arthur Miller for his great play, Death of a Salesman.
65. The play Death of a Salesman ________.
A. won several awards in 1947          B. made the public know Miller first    
C. is thought highly of                 D. made Miller rich  
66. Death of a Salesman¡¯s success lies in that______.
A. it has been translated into about thirty languages          
B. it has been performed around the world
C. although not all Americans are salesmen, most of them share Willy¡¯s dream
D. theater owners on Broadway respected Arthur Miller

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My father and I were very close .I loved pleasing him ,and he was always proud of my success .If I won a spelling contest at school, he was on top of the world .Later in life whenever I got a promotion£¨ÌáÉý£©,I¡¯d call my father right away and he¡¯d rush out to tell all his friends .In 1970,when I was named President of the Ford Motor Company ,I don¡¯t know which of us was more excited .Like many native Italians ,my parents were very open with their feelings and their love¡ªnot only at home ,but also in public .Most of my friends would never hug their fathers .But I hugged and kissed my dad at every opportunity¡ªnothing could have felt more natural .He was a curious man who was always trying new things .He was the first person in Allentown to buy a motorcycle. Unfortunately, my father and his motorcycle didn¡¯t get along too well .He fell off it so often that he got rid of it just a month after buying it. As a result, he never again trusted any vehicle with less than four wheels, Because of that motorcycle. I wasn¡¯t allowed to have a bicycle when I was growing up .Whenever I wanted to ride a bike, I had to borrow one from a friend .On the other hand ,my father let me drive a car as soon as I turned sixteen.
56£®When I won a contest at school, my father would___________.
A£®tell all his friend about it                 B£®feel most happy over it
C£®get very surprised at it                  D£®be much more excited than I
57£®Which of the following statement shows that my father was a curious man?
A£®I wasn¡¯t allowed to have a car when I was growing up.
B£®He was the first person in town to buy a motorcycle.
C£®He was always proud of my success.
D£®He was very open with his feelings and his love.
58£®My father trusted no vehicle with less than four wheels because___________.
A£®he did not like the way I always borrowed bicycles from friends
B£®he thought that cars were faster than motorcycles
C£®he liked every new model made by the Ford Motor company
D£®he had trouble in riding his motorcycle
59£®Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A£®My father loved his motorcycle .He rode through the dirty streets of Allentown every day.
B£®I wasn¡¯t allowed to have a bicycle when I was young, but when I was just 16 I was allowed to drive a car .
C£®My father was always proud of what I did .He was very pleased when I won a spelling contest at school.
D£®My father bought a motorcycle, but got rid of it because he fell off it so often.

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James Blunt is one of the most popular singers in the UK. His first album, Back to Bedlam, and his number one hit, You¡¯re Beautiful, brought him fame in 2005. his music is a mix of pop, rock and folk.
Blunt comes to China for the first time this month, he will hold two concerts, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai on April 18 and 19 respectively.
Blunt, 34, took an unusual path to stardom. His father was a soldier and so was his grandfather.
¡°The only music he heard growing up was Happy Birthday and Silent Night. His father considered all music, even classical, to be unnecessary noise,¡¯ reads Blunt¡¯s official website.
Even though Blunt did not want to join the military, he eventually followed his father¡¯s wishes, and served as a soldier in Kosovo on peacekeeping duty.
¡°Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects,¡± Blunt said. ¡°And the one job my father knew of, that he¡¯d had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.¡±
Blunt eventually became a Captain. One of his final duties in the army before retirement was carrying the coffin(¹×²Ä) at the funeral of the Queen Mother of England in 2002.
But Blunt couldn¡¯t escape his love for music. So, after leaving the British Army he moved to Los Angeles and worked on his first album. While in LA, Blunt lived with the actress Carrie Fisher, who played the lead female role in the Star Wars movie. He recorded his song, Goodbye My Lover, in his bathroom, where he kept a piano.
Blunt took his new album back to England where it was not very successful. But he kept performing and eventually his song, You¡¯re Beautiful, became a number one hit.
Now Blunt has won numerous awards, sold millions of records and dated super models.
But his greatest accomplishment might be that his father now enjoys music!
59. All of the following belongs to Blunt EXCEPT__________.
A. Back to Bedlam                 B. Silent Night     
C. Goodbye My Lover              D. You¡¯re Beautiful
60. Which of the following proves ¡°Blunt took an unusual path to stardom¡±?
A. Blunt was 34 when be became famous.
B. Blunt recorded his most famous song in a bathroom.
C. Blunt¡¯s father wanted him to have a secure job.
D. Blunt began to pursue a career in music after military service.
61. We can infer from the passage that __________.
A. Blunt is living in Los Angeles at present
B. Blunt rose to fame two years after he left the army
C. Blunt became successful immediately he recorded his first song
D. Blunt has changed his father¡¯s attitude towards music
62. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Blunt¡¯s visit to China              B. Blunt¡¯s military life.
C. How Blunt became famous          D. How Blunt father fell in love with music.

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