B

A special education teacher and former police officer was honored by President Barack Obama at the White House as the 2009 National Teacher of the Year for his innovative（創(chuàng)新的） approach, community focus, and teamwork with other teachers. “In a global economy where the greatest job qualification isn’t what you can do, but what you know, our teachers are the key to our nation’s success,”President Obama stated.

    Mullen, a ninth-through twelfth-grade special education teacher at the ARCH School in

Connecticut,is the 59th National Teacher of the Year. Mullen's goal is to provide passion, professionalism(職業(yè)特質(zhì)) ,and perseverance as an educator. “A teacher can receive no greater reward than the knowledge that he or she helped recover a lost student,” Mullen remarked. He will travel for one year as a full-time national and international spokesperson for education beginning June1,2009.

    The National Teacher of the Year Program focuses public attention on teaching excellence and is the oldest and most famous national honors program for teachers. ‘ACEI is a proud participant in the selection process for the National Teacher of the Year, and we are pleased to see Anthony Mullen selected. Mr. Mullen is a dedicated individual who possesses a wealth of talents and skills as a teacher. His devotion to young people, however, reaches beyond the call of duty. Mr.Mullen extends himself to adviser and guides children who need to know that they are not forgotten and that they, too, are unique and special,” stated ACEI Executive Director Diane Whitehead.

     ACEI is one of 15 national education organizations that select the National Teacher of the Year from among the state teachers of the year, including those representing the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity,and five U. S. extra state departments.

45. What is the passage mainly about?

   A. A White House ceremony.             B. An innovative teaching approach.

   C. The 2009 National Teacher of the Year.   D. The national education organizations.

46. We can learn from the first paragraph Obama stresses __________.

   A. teachers’ role                      B. community lives

   C. teachers’ teamwork                 D. innovative approach

47. According to Mullen, his success as an educator lies in__________.

   A. being a full-time national and international spokesperson

   B. providing passion, perseverance and professionalism

   C. helping those who can’t find their way home

   D. helping the students achieve high scores

48. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

   A. the National Teacher of the Year Program hasn't been well-known

   B. ACEI is the only organization in charge of selecting excellent teachers

   C. Mullen is devoted to teaching the students for the call of duty

   D. Mullen's success may be due to his previous work experience

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EDGEWOOD—Every morning at Dixie Heights High school, customers pour into a special experiment :the district’s first coffee shop run mostly by students with special learning needs.

Well before classes start, students and teachers order Lattes, Cappuccinos and Hot Chocolates. Then, during the first period, teachers call in orders on their room phones, and students make deliveries.

By closing time at 9.20 a.m. , the shop usually sells 90drinks.

“whoever made the chi tea, Ms. Schatzman says it was good, ”Christy McKinley , a second year student , announced recently, after hanging up with the teacher.

The shop is called the Dixie PIT, which stands for Power in Transition. Although some of the students are not disabled, many are, and the PIT helps them prepare for life after high school.

They learn not only how to run a coffee shop but also how to deal with their affairs. They keep a timecard and receive paychecks , which they keep in check registers.

Special-education teachers Kim Chevalier and Sue Casey introduced the Dixie PIT from a similar program at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Georgia.

Not that it was easy. Chevalier’s first problem to overcome was product-related. Should schools be selling coffee? What about sugar content?

Kenton County Food Service Director Ginger Gray helped. She made sure all the drinks, which use non-fat milk, fell within nutrition（營(yíng)養(yǎng)）guidelines.

The whole school has joined in to help.

Teachers agreed to give up their lounge(休息室)in the morning. Art students painted the name of the shop on the wall. Business students designed the paychecks. The basketball team helped pay for cups.

What is the text mainly about？

  A.A best-selling coffee.

  B.A special educational program.

  C. Government support for schools.

  D.A new type of teacher-student relationship.

The Dixie PIT program was introduced in order to     .

  A. raise money for school affairs

  B. do some research on nutrition

  C. develop students’ practical skills

  D. supply teachers with drinks

How did Christy McKinley know Ms. Schatzman’s opinion of the chi tea？

  A. She met her in the shop.

  B. She heard her telling others.

  C. She talked to her on the phone.

  D .She went to her office to deliver the tea.

We know from the text that Ginger Gray       .

  A. manages the Dixie PIT program in Kenton County

  B. sees that the drinks meet health standards

  C. teaches at Dixie Heights High School

  D. owns the school’s coffee shop

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After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a special student. An illness had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to him, so I agreed.
During the nine-mile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular dystrophy (肌肉萎縮癥). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five, and then they were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal power lifter, and I knew about overcoming obstacles（克服困難） and going for（努力實(shí)現(xiàn)） my dreams.
I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he complain（抱怨）or ask, “Why me?” He spoke about winning and succeeding and going for his dreams. Obviously, he knew what he was talking about. He didn’t mention（提到） that his classmates had made fun of him because he was different. He just talked about his hopes for the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weights with me. When we had finished talking, I went to my briefcase（公事包） and pulled out the first gold medal I had won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of a winner and knew more about success and overcoming obstacles than I ever would. He looked at it for a moment, then took it off and handed it back to me. He said, “You are a champion（冠軍）. You earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.”
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I told you someday that I would go to the Olympics and win a gold medal, but I know now I will never get to do that. However, I know I’m a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven（天堂）, God will give me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you. Thank you for loving me.
Your friend,
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In 1859，during the Gold Rush，a twenty- year-old immigrant（移民）from Bavaria named Levi Strauss stepped off the boat in San Francisco. He had with him a special cloth called Serge de Nimes that was later called denim in America. Levi Strauss hoped to sell the denim as material to make tents and covers for wagons to the men who were going to the goldfields to look for gold.

“You should have brought trousers to sell. In the goldfields we need strong trousers that don‘t wear out，”one young miner advised Strauss. So Levi Strauss took some of his denim to the nearest tailor and had him make the miner a pair of trousers. The miner was so pleased that he told other miners about the wonderful newcomer，Levi，and soon Levi Strauss had to open a shop，producing enough trousers for the miners. The miners wanted trousers that were comfortable to ride in and were low cut so that they could bend over easily to pick up the gold from under their feet. Besides they wanted the trousers to have big useful pockets. One miner complained that the gold in his pockets kept tearing them. So Levi put metal corners in the pockets to make them stronger. Very soon，miners and cowboys from all over came to get fitted up with Levi‘s trousers. Today more than a hundred years later， Levi’s trousers walk the world a Levi‘s blue jeans（牛仔褲）。

1.The denim cloth was originally（起初）meant for____.

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B. making tents for wagons

C. making trousers for the miners

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B.A special type of cloth that cannot be washed away by rain.

C.A smooth type of cloth that is for underwear.

D.A wonderful type of cloth that is as good as metal.

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B. the miner‘s trousers had not been strong enough

C. the miner‘s trousers did not wear out easily

D. the tailor on the goldfield could not make trousers

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Far from the land of Antarctica, a huge shelf of ice meets the ocean. At the underside of the shelf there lives a small fish, the Antarctic cod.

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The fish were taken from seawater that had a temperature of -1.88℃ and many tiny pieces of ice floating in it. The blood of the fish did not begin to freeze until its temperature was lowered to -2.05℃. That small difference is enough for the fish to live at the freezing temperature of the ice-salt mixture.

The scientists’ next research job was clear: Find out what in the fish’s blood kept it from freezing. Their search led to some really strange thing made up of a protein(蛋白質(zhì)) never before seen in the blood of a fish. When it was removed, the blood froze at seawater temperature. When it was put back, the blood again had its antifreeze quality and a lowered freezing point.

Study showed that it is an unusual kind of protein. It has many small sugar molecules(分子) held in special positions within each big protein molecules. Because of its sugar content, it is called a glycoprotein. So it has come to be called the antifreeze fish glycoprotein, or AFGP.

49. What is the text mainly about?

A. The terrible conditions in the Antarctic.          B. A special fish living in freezing waters.

C. The ice shelf around Antarctic.                  D. Protection of the Antarctic cod.

50. Why can the Antarctic cod live at the freezing temperature?

A. The seawater has a temperature of -1.88℃.    

B. It loves to live in the ice-salt mixture.

C. A special protein keeps it from freezing.        

D. Its blood has a temperature lower than -2.05℃.

51. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?

A. A type of ice-salt mixture.                      B. A newly found protein.

C. Fish blood.                                           D. Sugar molecule.

52. What does “glycol” in the underlined word “glycoprotein” in the last paragraph mean?

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Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet well-known for how he wrote his poems He wrote his poems with capital (大寫的) letters in the words . For example, the title of one of his poems is “The little horse is newlY” The “Y” is a capital letter. He also used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself in the poems.

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E.E.Cummings was a very smart boy. Edward was 12 when he became a freshman in high school. He loved circuses, ballets, music and amusement parks.

     Edward graduated from Harvard in 1916. During World War I , he joined the army and was sent to France where he drove an ambulance. He and his friend from Harvard were arrested because people thought they were German spies. They were kept in one room where they slept , ate , talked and tried to deal with their fears and boredom. Edward wrote his first book, published in 1922, called The Enormous Room, based on his wartime experiences.

     E.E.Cummings was a poet that made his own rules in poetry. He was one of the most popular poets of the 20th century.

1.Which is a special feature of E.E.Cummings’ poems?

A. Their titles are all written with capital letters.

B.A special capital letter is used in them to refer to the writer.

C. He used “Y” to refer to “you”.

D. He used letters in a special way in them

2.What’s the second paragraph mainly about?

A. Edward’s schooling               B. Edward’s parents

C. Edward’s family                  D. Edward’s childhood.

3.E.E.Cummings was arrested in the war because ___________.

    A. he went to France without permission     B. he looked like a Frenchman

    C. he was thought to be German agent   D. he drove away a car that belonged to the army

 

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