7、      I hear many parents saying that their teen-age children are rebellion（反叛）. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teen-agers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents, instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one anohter’s hands for safety.

       They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same cloths. They set off in new directions in music But somehow they all end up crowded around listening to the same record Their reasons for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon（蚕茧）―into a large cocoon.

       It has becomes harder and harder for a teen-ager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teen-ager market. These days every teen-ager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teen-ager should have and be. And may of today’s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds to great difficulty ofr a teen-ager who wants to find his or her path.

       But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.

72．The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell        .

       A．readers how to be popular in the world

       B．teen-agers how to learn to decide things for themselves

       C．parents how to control and guide their children

       D．people how to understand and respect each other

73．According to the writer, many teen-agers think that they are brave enough to act on their own, but in fact, most of them       .

       A．have much difficulty in understanding each other

       B．are not sure of themselves

       C．dare not do things

       D．are very much afraid of getting lost

74．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．There is no popularity that really counts.

       B．What many parents are doing is actually keeping their children from finding their own paths.

       C．It is not necessarily bad for a teen-ager to disagree with his or her classmates

       D．Most teen-agers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are doing the same.

75．During the teen-ager years, one should learn to        .

       A．become different from others in as many ways as possible

       B．get into the right season and become popular

       C．find one’s real self

       D．rebel against one’s parents

6、       Bomb attack on Bombay trains kills 190

       BOMBAY, India-Eight bombs exploded in first class compartments（车厢）of packed Bombay Trains Tuesday, killing 190 people and wounding hundreds in a well-designed terror attack on the heart of a city that embodies the ambition of the country.

       Liu Xiang record warms China’s hearts

       Liu Xiang of China set a new 110 metres hurdles world record on a stunning night in Lausanne, breaking the record he shared with Britain’s Colin Jackson. Liu rushed to the finishing line in a time of 12.88 seconds, beating the old mark of 12.91 that he matched in winning gold at the 2004 A thens Olympics. Jackson ran 12.91 in Stuttgart, Germany, in August 1993.

       Materazzi admits insulting Zidane

       Marco Materazzi admits he insulted（侮辱）Zinedine Zidane before the France captain head-butted him in the World Cup final. Materazzi denies calling him a“terrorist.”Zidane and Materazzi exchanged words after Italy broke up a French attack in extra-time of Sunday’s final in Berlin Seconds later, Zidane lowered his head and rammed Materazzi in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

       President Hu departs for G8 summit

       BEIJING,July 16-Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing on Sunday morning for Russia’s St. Petersburg to attend the summit of the Group of Eight major economies. Hu is invited by Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Monday. Hu will meet with G-8 leaders to discuss energy security, prevention and control of epidemic diseases, education, African development and other topics. Among Hu’s entourages are State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Director of the Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China（CPC）Wang Huning, Deputy Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Ling Jihua, Director of thePresident’s Office Chen Shiju and Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai. The G-8 members are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.

68．From the first news item, we can infer that       .

       A．few Indian people are rich enough to take the first-class compartments

       B．the terrorists spent plenty of time and efforts in planning the attack

       C．an exact number of injuries has been discovered after the attack

       D．the heart of the city Bombay has always been the target of terror attacks

69．According to the news report, the old 110 metres hurdles world record        .

       A．has been kept for only two years since the 2004 Athens Olympics

       B．was shared by Liuxiang and Jackson in Stuttgart, Germany.

       C．is raised by 12.88 seconds by Liuxiang in Lausanne.

       D．was broken by Liuxiang in 2004 Athens Olympics.

70．What do the underlined words“exchanged words”mean in the third news item?

       A．had a discussion                                  B．had words with each other

       C．exchanged opinions                              D．made a bargain

71．Which of the following statements is NOT true by the last news item?

       A．Russia will host the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg.

       B．China is not a member of the Group of Eight

       C．China attends the summit with the invitation of the Russian government.

       D．Health problems will not be among the topics in the G-8 summit.

5、     I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one’s own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.

       Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the residents or selling old things to visitors. Nevertheless. This would really be a false impression. There has been smaller village commerce（商业）,but its vigor（活力）is still remarkable.

       Our local grocer’s shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women prefer to go there and exchange the local news while purchasing, instead of purchasing up at a supermarket. And the shop owner knows well that personal service has a substantial（物质上的）cash value.

       His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an aged woman who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The wealthier customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big groups of industry or commerce.

       Most of the village shopkeepers I know, are individualists in their ways. For example, our shoemaker stares with a cold look at the pairs of cheap, mass-produced shoes taken to him for repair. Has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he, a craftsman（手艺人）, work upon them. And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury（奢侈）.

64．The writer considered the guidebook interesting because he found in it       .

       A．the names of so many of the shops in the village around

       B．many tradesmen serving local villagers in various ways

       C．the variety of services available in Victorian days in Britain

       D．information about jobs provided in his own and surrounding villages

65．The writer appreciates the village shop because      .

       A．this is a rare case of small enterprise（企业）which is still booming

       B．private enterprise should survive in a competitive world

       C．he welcomes personal competition with collectivized business

       D．he likes the idea of achieving business success in a special way

66．What is the village shoemaker’s reaction to mass-produced shoes?

       A．He considers they are not worth the effort of mending properly.

       B．He is angry with the customer for bringing in such rubbish.

       C．He looks down upon the low quality of industrialized products

       D．He hates those people who do not buy his handmade shoes.

67．What might be the writer’s implied idea by writing the article?

       A．An enterprise, big or small, will prosper as long as it takes trouble to satisfy.

       B．Modern collectivized companies have more disadvantages than an individual enterprise

       C．Commercial services can be perfect only through competition between individual and collectivized enterprises.

       D．It is impossible for any large-scale enterprise to provide high quality services.

4、       Scientific mistakes can live on forever. When 18th-century European museums were first sent specimens of a large furry animal with long curved white claws, they named it“bear-like sloth（树獭）”because its claws resemble those of South American sloths. Later scientists realized that the species was a tropical bear unrelated to sloths, but its wrongheaded name remains the sloth bear.

       Ranging India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and possibly Bangladesh, these 150 to 300-pound bears feed on fruits and insects. They sound like bellows（公牛吼叫）when using their flexible noses and lips to blow away dirt and suck up ants. But don’t be misled: This gentle-looking bear can be dangerous, occasionally killing villagers who enter the forest. Yognand often talks with villagers to help avoid conflicts.“Attacks can be prevented if people avoid certain places.”

       One goal of his research has been to track a dozen radio-collared bears in the dry forests of India’s Panna National Park. He’s discovered that some bears have home ranges of up to 40 square miles. His conclusion：“We need to protect large patches（地盘）of their habitat and maintain links between those patches. Unfortunately sloth bears have to compete with species such as tigers. The bears get far less attention than they deserve.”

60．The large furry animal was named the sloth bear because        .

       A．it has something to do with the sloth

       B．its claws look like those of South American sloths

       C．it has long curved white claws

       D．it looks like bears

61．Sloth bears usually live in       .

       A．East Africa                                          B．South America

       C．cold regions                                        D．South Asia

62．The underlined word“habitat”in the last paragraph probably means       .

       A．the dry forest                                       B．a national park

       C．the natural home of an animal                D．the wet land

63．The author writes this article in order to       .

      A．call on people to pay more attention to the kind of bear

       B．ask people to avoid conflicts with such kind of bear

       C．warn people to be far away from the bear

       D．tell us an interesting story

3、      Procter and Gamble（P&G）has announced that it’ll enlarge its household products empire by combining with Gillette. The deal is expected to close this autumn because it should get permission from US Antitrust Regulators（反垄断管理协会），P&G said in a statement.

       P&G is to gain all of Gillette’s business, including its producing and technical equipment. It will add a product variety popular with men. P&G said it expected the combination to bring in totaling US $14―16 billion. But it also said it was planning to cut the combined workforce of 140,000 by about 6,000 or four percent.

       P&G is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, US. It has about 110,000 employees in almost 80 countries. Its brands include Tide laundry detergent and Head&Shoulders shampoo. Gillette is famous all over the world for its shaving（刮脸）products. It’s based in Boston, Massachusetts, US and has 32 factories in 14 countries. P&G ranks No. 1 in the world in its household and personal furnishing parts and the company had US$ 5.8 billion in profits（利润）in 2004. Gillette ranks No.5 and has a market capitalization（资本）of US$ 45.5 billion.

       This combination of two best of their class, at a time when they are both operating from a position of strength, is a special opportunity, and the combination is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world. It’s a dream deal.

56．The main purpose of writing this text is         .

       A．to compare the two world-famous companies

       B．to inform us of the combination of the two companies

       C．to introduce the two companies and their products

       D．to announce the two companies’ profits and capitalization

57．What does the writer think of the combination?

       A．The deal is really great.

       B．The deal will do harm to Gillette.

       C．The deal will disappoint the business world.

       D．The deal is welcomed by consumers.

58．Which of the following is most likely to happen after the combination.

       A．P&G will be shut off this autumn.

       B．Only Gillette’s employees will be fired.

       C．Both of the two companies will be the best.

       D．P&G will produce what attracts men.

59．We can infer from the text that        .

      A．The combination of big companies may possibly lead to trust.

       B．All Gillette’s thirty-two factories are in fourteen countries

       C．P&G made less profits than Gillette in 2004

       D．P&G’s products are worse than Gillette’s

2、      Procter and Gamble（P&G）has announced that it’ll enlarge its household products empire by combining with Gillette. The deal is expected to close this autumn because it should get permission from US Antitrust Regulators（反垄断管理协会），P&G said in a statement.

       P&G is to gain all of Gillette’s business, including its producing and technical equipment. It will add a product variety popular with men. P&G said it expected the combination to bring in totaling US $14―16 billion. But it also said it was planning to cut the combined workforce of 140,000 by about 6,000 or four percent.

       P&G is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, US. It has about 110,000 employees in almost 80 countries. Its brands include Tide laundry detergent and Head&Shoulders shampoo. Gillette is famous all over the world for its shaving（刮脸）products. It’s based in Boston, Massachusetts, US and has 32 factories in 14 countries. P&G ranks No. 1 in the world in its household and personal furnishing parts and the company had US$ 5.8 billion in profits（利润）in 2004. Gillette ranks No.5 and has a market capitalization（资本）of US$ 45.5 billion.

       This combination of two best of their class, at a time when they are both operating from a position of strength, is a special opportunity, and the combination is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world. It’s a dream deal.

56．The main purpose of writing this text is         .

       A．to compare the two world-famous companies

       B．to inform us of the combination of the two companies

       C．to introduce the two companies and their products

       D．to announce the two companies’ profits and capitalization

57．What does the writer think of the combination?

       A．The deal is really great.

       B．The deal will do harm to Gillette.

       C．The deal will disappoint the business world.

       D．The deal is welcomed by consumers.

58．Which of the following is most likely to happen after the combination.

       A．P&G will be shut off this autumn.

       B．Only Gillette’s employees will be fired.

       C．Both of the two companies will be the best.

       D．P&G will produce what attracts men.

59．We can infer from the text that        .

      A．The combination of big companies may possibly lead to trust.

       B．All Gillette’s thirty-two factories are in fourteen countries

       C．P&G made less profits than Gillette in 2004

       D．P&G’s products are worse than Gillette’s

1、       Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived; Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others,   36   Love. One day it was announced to   37   that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and   38   , except for Love. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to   39   until the last  40   moment. When the island had almost sunk. Love decided to ask for help.

       Richness was passing by Love in a grand  41   .Love said,“Richness, can you take me with you?”

       Richness answered,“No, I can’t. There is a lot of  42   in my boat. There is no place here for you.”

       Love decided to ask Vanity（虚荣）who was also passing by in a（n）  43   vessel（船只）. “Vanity, please help me!”

       “I can’t help you. Love. You are all wet and might  44   my boat,” Vanity answered.

       Sadness was  45   by so Love asked, “Sadness, let me go with you.”

       “Oh…Love, I am so sad that I need to be   46  ! ”

       Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even  47   when Love called her.

         48   ,there was a voice,“Come, Love, I will take you.”It was an elder. So blessed and

  49  , Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at  50   land, the elder went her own  51   . Realizing how much was  52   the elder. Love asked Knowledge, another  53  , “Who helped me?”

       “It was Time,”Knowledge answered.

       “Time?”asked Love.“But why did Time help me?”

       Knowledge smiled with deep  54   and answered,“Because only Time is capable of understanding how  55   Love is.”

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