19、Tokyo: the world's oldest man, retired Japanese silkworm breeder Yukichi Chuganji, died in his home at the age of 114, on Monday. Family members found him dead on his mattress. Born on March 23, 1989, Chuganji worked as a silkworm breeder and bank employee after leaving school. He also served as a community welfare officer. He had been in good health, talking daily with his family members.

    Washington: every American dislikes people who talk on cell phones while driving, even those are guilty of the practice. In the State of New Jersey, 84 percent of 968 cell phone owners said in a recent telephone survey that they would support a state ban on the use of cell phones while driving. However, 42 percent of cell phone owners also said they used the devices "very often" or "sometimes" while driving. Although most agree that the banning is good, only 38 percent believed such a ban would be easy to enforce.

    New York: a woman in the US who was being attacked by a vicious dog said she was saved from further harm when her 13-year-old daughter distracted the canine by screaming" You want a piece of me?" and kicked it repeatedly in the head. Jane Howell said she and her daughter, Elizabeth, were taking a walk around the neighborhood on Saturday, evening when they came across the big dog, unchained.

62. The main idea of the second paragraph is ____.

A. most Americans don't like cell phones          

B. a ban on the use of cell phones has been made

C. few people use cell phones while driving

D. using cell phones while driving will be banned because most Americans don't like it

63. The three pieces of news are all about ____.

A. science                    B. daily life            C. sports                      D. law

64. From the news we can infer ____.

A. Chuganji was living alone when he died

B. the woman's 13-year-old daughter was brave enough

C. cell phones are not good devices

D. it's easy to enforce the ban on the use of cell phones while driving

65. "Vicious" in the third paragraph means____.

A. bad                          B. kind                 C. unchained                 D. ugly

18、If there is any single factor(因素) that makes for success in living, it is the ability to be benefited by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze(分析) defeat and actually learn something from it in this next undertaking(从事的工作). Wrongly take defeat for failure and you are sure indeed to fail. For it isn’t defeat that makes you fail; it is your own refusal to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success.

Defeats are nothing to be afraid of. They are common incidents in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it, analyze it and learn why you failed. Defeat, in other words, can help to get rid of its own cause. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can cause within us such a strong wish to succeed. If you let a baby grasp a stick and try to pull it away, he will hold it more and more tightly until his whole weight is hung up. It is this same reaction(反应) that should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you make full use of the power which defeat gives, you can complete with it far more than you are able to.

59．The person who was able to analyze defeat is likely

A．to achieve success                        B．to be afraid of his defeat

C．to let a baby grasp a stick                     D．to make a living

60．The author

A．advises you to mix defeat with failure

B．orders you to mix defeat with failure

C．wants you to wrongly take defeat for failure

D．warns you not to wrongly take defeat with failure

61．What does the author advise one to do with the power which defeat gives?

A．One should explain it.                           B．One should examine it.

C．One should use it to win success.         D．One should know its usefulness.

17、Most British telephone cards are just plain green, but card collecting is becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine, International Telephone Cards. One reason for their interest is that cards from around the world come in a wide variety of different and often very attractive designs. There are 100,000 different cards in Japan alone, and there you can put your own design onto a blank card simply by using a photograph or a business card.
     The first telephone cards, produced in 1976, were Italian. Five years later the first British card appeared, and now you can buy cards in more than a hundred countries.                                

People usually start collecting cards because they are attractive, small and light, and they do not need much space. It is also a cheap hobby for beginners, although for some people it becomes a serious business. In Paris, for example, there is a market where you can buy only telephone cards, and some French cards cost up to 4,000 pounds. The first Japanese card has a value of about 28,000 pounds. Most people only see cards with prices like these in their collectors’ magazine.
56．The passage is mainly about ___          

A．the history of phone cards

B．phone card collecting as a hobby

C．reasons for phone card collecting

       D．the great variety of phone cards.

57．The main reason for most people to collect phone cards is that ___   

A．they find the cards beautiful and easy to keep

B．they like to have something from different countries

C．they want to make money with cards

D．they think the cards are convenient to use

58．The writer mentions a market in Paris in order to show that ___   

A．card collecting is popular among young people

B．French and Japanese cards are the most valuable

C．people can make money out of card collecting

D．card collectors’ magazines are very useful

15、 (2010年烟台二模)They landed safely on the island in the Pacific.Everything went on better than________.

A．expected                             B．expecting

C．expectation                          D．to expect

14、 (2010年烟台检测)He is rather difficult to make friends with，but his friendship，________，is more true than any other’s.

A．once gained                         B．when to gain

C．after gaining                        D．while gaining

13、 (2011年潍坊质量监测)When people cut down big trees，new trees should be planted.________they will have no trees to cut down in the future.

A．If not                           B．If so

C．If no so                        D．If don’t

12、 (2010年海南五校联考)I have been living in Haikou for 10 years，but seldom________so lonely as now.

A．have I felt                                   B．I have felt

C．had I felt                                    D．I had felt

11、 (2010年湖北部分重点中学高三第一次联考)Many a writer of newspaper articles ________ to writing novels.

A．has turned                           B．have turned

C．being turned                        D．are going to turn

10、 (2010年南通二模)—He is eager to try something he has never tried before.

—Oh，I see.That’s________he’s different from others.

A．when                           B．where

C．how                             D．what