The report came to the British on May 21, 1941. The German battleship Bismarck, the most powerful warship in the world, was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Her task: to destroy the ships carrying supplies from the United States to war-torn England.

     The British had feared such a task. No warship they had could match the Bismarck in speed in firepower. The Bismarck had eight 15-inch guns and 81 smaller guns. She could move at 31 nautical miles (海里) an hour. She was believed to be unsinkable.?However, the British had to sink her. They sent out a task force headed by their best battleship Hood to hunt down the Bismarck. On May 24, the Hood found the Bismarck.?

    It was a meeting that the German commander Luetjens did not want to see. His orders were to destroy the British ships that were carrying supplies, but to stay away from a fight with British warships.?

    The battle didn't last long. The Bismarck's first torpedo (鱼雷) hit the Hood, which went down taking all but three of her 1 419 men with her.?

    But in the fight, the Bismarck was slightly damaged (损坏). Her commander decided to run for repair to France, which had at that time been taken by the Germans. The British force followed her. However, because of the Bismarck's speed and the heavy fog, they lost sight of her.?

     For two days, every British ship in the Atlantic tried to find the Bismarck, but with no success. Finally, she was sighted by a plane from Ireland. Trying to slow the Bismarck down so that their ships could catch up with her, the British fired at her from the air. The Bismarck was hit.?

    On the morning of May 27, the last battle was fought. Four British ships fired on the Bismarck, and she was finally sunk.?

61. The Bismarck sailed into the Atlantic Ocean _______.?

A.   to sink the Hood                                                            B. to gain control of France?

C. to cut off American supplies to British                                D. to stop British warship reaching German

62. Many people believed that Bismarck could not be defeated because she _______.?

A. was fast and powerful                                                B. had more men on board?

C. was under Luetjens' command                                     D. had biggest guns than other ships?

63. We learn from the text that on 24 May _______.?

A. the British won the battle against the Bismarck?

B. the Bismarck won the battle against the British?

C. the British gunfire damaged the Bismarck seriously?

D. the Bismarck succeeded in keeping away from the British

64. Luetjens tried to sail to France in order to _______.?

A. have the ship repaired                                                B. join the other Germans?

C. get help from the French                                            D. get away from the British?

65. Which of the following is the immediate cause of the sinking of the Bismarck??

A. The British air strikes.?                                             B. The damage done by the Hood.?

C. Gunfire from four British ships.?                                D. Luetjens' decision to run for France.?

       At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until 1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to carry a red lamp.

       Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England, but he wanted to drive faster than four miles an hour .In order to have no trouble with the police, he had a talk with some of the police officers, who ordered their policemen to look the other way when the car came along the road. This was a good plan in the country, but not so easy to follow in the busy streets of London.

       One night Rolls and some friends started from London on their journey to Cambridge. One of the men walked in front with the red lamp, but he walked as fast as he could. The police became very interested in walls and shop-fronts when they heard the car, and not one of them saw it.

       They reached a hill; but what a waste of time it was to drive down the hill at four miles an hour! Rolls was getting ready to jump into the car; but then he noticed a policeman who was not looking the other way. The slow car reached him.

       “Good evening,” said the policeman, looking at the car.

       “Good evening,” said Rolls, holding the lamp.

       “One of these horseless things,” said the policeman, looking at it with interest.

       “Yes,” said Rolls, and waited.

       “I’ve often wanted a ride in one; but of course policemen can’t buy things like that.” He turned and looked hopefully in Rolls’s face.

       “Jump in,” said Rolls.

       “Thanks,” said the policeman, and did so. “Now,” he said, sitting down, “you can let it go just as you like down this hill. There isn’t another policeman on this road for a mile and a half.”

60．The policemen were told “to look the other way” (the underlined part in Paragraph 2) so that        .

       A．they could watch the car coming from the other direction

       B．the car could go faster than four miles an hour

       C．they could make sure no one was in the way

       D．the car would not hit them on the road

61．In what way did the policemen carry out the order from their officers?

       A．They greeted Rolls when the car came along.

       B．They walked in front of the car with a red lamp.

       C．They pretended to be attracted by something else.

       D．They stood on duty every 1.5 miles along the road.

62．The policeman who said “Good evening” to Rolls wanted to       .

       A．teach Rolls a lesson                                   B．take a free ride home

       C．have a talk with Rolls                                D．have a car ride experience

63．After the policeman jumped into the car, Rolls       .

       A．dared not drive the car faster than he was allowed to

       B．could drive as fast as he wished within a certain distance

       C．could drive on any road he liked for the rest of the journey

       D．drove his car as fast as he could down the hill to Cambridge

We have done a survey recently to find whom students will turn to 1.______

when they in trouble .The following are the results .     2.______

Most of students will go to their friends ,because  3.______

they are almost the same age and are able to  4.______

understand each other easy .Some students will tell  5.______

their parents or teachers about their troubles for the reason that they all 6.____

have too much experience that they can be trusted   7.___

by their kids and students. Only a few students    8______

prefer to solving the problemsall by themselves .They hate to talk with others  9______

and can’t get on well with others .As a result ,they have more friends . 10._____

A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

 “Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

   7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

(   )1. A. work           B. stay    C. live     D. expect

(   )2. A. answer   B. speak  C. smile         D. laugh

(   )3. A. covering       B. moving      C. fighting      D. pressing

(   )4. A. minds    B. memories   C. thoughts     D. brains

(   )5. A. better    B. dark    C. younger            D. old

(   )6. A. cave            B. place   C. sight          D. scene

(   )7. A. Discussing           B. Solving      C. Sharing            D. Suffering

(   )8. A. learn from           B. talk to C. help          D. know

(   )9. A. needed         B. recognized  C. interested          D. encouraged

(   )10. A. normal       B. common     C. unusual     D. quick

(   )11. A. more          B. worse  C. fewer         D. less

(   )12. A. word          B. speech C. sentence           D. language

(   )13. A. not            B. no      C. something         D. nothing

(   )14. A. fed            B. kept    C. lived          D. depended

(   )15. A. attention    B. control       C. treatment          D. management

(   )16. A. lost            B. needed       C. destroyed          D. left

(   )17. A. troublesome  B. unlucky    C. angry         D. unpopular

(   )18. A. separated           B. went   C. reunited            D. returned

(   )19. A. pushed       B. tried   C. showed      D. measured

(   )20. A. nodding            B. greeting     C. meeting            D. acting

–What did your parents think about your decision?

–They always let me do _______ I think I should.

A. when      B. that`     C. how      D. what