The performance ______ nearly three hours, but few people left the theatre early.

A. covered             B. reached                    C. played        D. lasted

It was in the hotel _______ I stayed yesterday _______ the accident happened.

  A. which; that        B. that; that       C. /;where      D. where; that

閱讀表達(dá)：閱讀短文，回答問題。

You’ll have many things to arrange and think about before you leave your home country for New Zealand. Use our links to find some important information to help you prepare for departure.

Bank accounts and credit cards

Your present bank should be able to help you set up a bank account in New Zealand before you leave, so that you can make credit card and other withdrawals(提款)when you arrive.

Documents, credit references(證明)and driver licences

Your first few days in New Zealand are more likely to be easy and problem-free if you arrive with the following documents:

◎birth certificates

◎marriage certificates

◎academic qualifications

◎references from previous employers

◎curriculum vitae (個(gè)人簡(jiǎn)歷)

◎an international driver licence or permit

All documents should be originals (not copies). _________________________ they should be accompanied (附上)by a certified (認(rèn)可的)translation.

Plan what to wear

The weather is changeable, so bring a range of clothes and do not forget to include a raincoat. Remember, seasons are the reverse(相反的) of those in the northern hemisphere.

Bringing your belongings

The New Zealand Customs Service pamphlet(小冊(cè)子), Advice on Importing Goods into New Zealand, provides full information about importing goods into New Zealand. The pamphlet is available from New Zealand immigration, diplomatic(外交的) and trade offices or you can E-mail: feedback@customs.govt.nz

Pets

You may need to plan six months ahead if you wish to bring your domestic pets into the country. For full information, contact the Import Management Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF). Telephone: +64 4 498 9625, Fax: +64 4 474 4132.

71. What is the proper title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)

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72. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one？

When you set off for New Zealand, bring some clothes in case the weather changes

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73. Please fill in the blank in the fifth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)     ________________________________

74. Which one of the preparations do you think is the most important for you if you go to New Zealand? Give your reasons?(Please answer within 30 words)

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75. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.

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       The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness. People believe that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold, and it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.

During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(戰(zhàn)壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.

In the Second World Was prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.

At the Common Cold Research Unit England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with cold water, and them stood about dripping wet in wind. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.

In the cold we have nothing to do with catching colds. Why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.

No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and painkillers such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(癥狀).

1. Besides the experiments in England, the writer offered     more examples to support his argument.

       A、3             B、4            C、5              D、6

2. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?

A、The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.

B、Colds are not caused by cold.

C、People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.

D、A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.

3. Arctic explorers may catch colds when       .

A、they are working in the inolated arctic regions

B、they are writing reports in terribly cold weather

C、they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions

D、they are coming into touch again with the outside world

4. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit      .

A、suffered a lot                                      B、never caught colds

C、often caught colds                                D、became very strong

Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play it until their hands were burnt away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because fear would not warn the child to keep away from the fire that had burnt him or her before. A really fearless soldier-and some do exist –is not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which men and animals might soon die out.

In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. If, for example, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: a plane may crash on your house, or ants may eat away some of the wood in your roof, and they later may fall on you, or you may get cancer !

The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead to use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take.

In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight toward you; fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is OK.

In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you cannot prevent a plane from crashing into your house, and you may not want to go and live in a desert where there are no plants. In this case, fear has given you its warning; you have examined it and decided on your course of action, so fear of this particular danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it.

1. Children would play with fire until their hands were burnt away if _______.

A. they were given no warning beforehand

B. they didn’t have any sense of pain at all

C. they had never burnt themselves

D. they felt afraid of the fire

2. A really fearless soldier _______.

  A. is of a little use to his army

  B. is not afraid of battles at all

  C. is nothing but a dead soldier

  D. is easy to get killed in a battle

3. People sometimes succeed in timely avoiding dangers because _______.

  A. they are warned of the danger and take quick action

  B. they are quick both in mind and in action

  C. they are calm in face of danger

  D. they have gained much experience

4. It is implied but not stated that _______.

  A. fear is always something helpful

  B. too much fear is harmful

  C. fear should be used as a servant and guide

  D. fear is something strange and particular

. —Oh, sorry. I’ve just stepped on your newly-bought dress.

— _____. It’s no big deal.

A. Don’t worry about it                                    B. Don’t mention it

C. Go ahead                                                     D. I bought it yesterday

My mom once worked in a very small village school, which is__________only on foot.

       A．a(chǎn)cceptable B．a(chǎn)dequate   C．a(chǎn)ccessible  D．a(chǎn)ppropriate

 He packed his suitcase, ________ the door and rushed downstairs as fast as he could.

Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it less. And when that doesn’t work, we compound the problem. In our frantic search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.

The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.

Arthur Lindman, in his devastating book, “The Harried Leisure Class,” described the futility of pursuing more. His research focused on what people did with their leisure time. He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them. Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety. That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.

Lindman, of course, is not the first to discover this. The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago. It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.

If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me. How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?

The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things. The more I give up, the more I seem to gain. But words will never convince you. You must try it for yourself.

1．Arthur Lindman predicted twenty years ago that ______.

A. more things brought more value   B. the more people had, the less they valued them

C. people didn’t like to pursue more  D. massive boredom came from less variety

2．What does the article suggest to make our life happier?

A. To enjoy more things.             B. To buy more things.

C. To sell things we do not need.      D. To get rid of useless things.

3．The passage is probably written to ___________.

A. introduce Arthur Lindman and his book        B. tell the readers what is satisfaction

C. introduce how to simplify people’s life        D. persuade people to simplify their life

　  Great Britain is traditionally made up of three parts: England in the south, Scotland in north and Wales in the southwest.

　　England is the largest and most developed of all the three. Its area, about 130,000 square kilometers, takes up nearly 60% of the whole island. Its population is mere than 46 million which makes up 85% of the country's whole population. The importance of England is so great in Britain that some foreigners just say “England” when they mean Britain. The same is true of the custom of speaking of the British people as the English who are the majority in the United Kingdom.

　　Scotland is the second largest both in area and population. It has an area of about 78,760 square kilometers, less than 30 % of the whole is land, with a population of 5 million, less than one-tenth of the total population.

　  Wales is the smallest of the three both in area and population. Its area, 20,700 square kilometers, makes up less than 9 % while its population, 2.7 million, does not exceed 5 % of the whole.

1. Which of the following maps shows the right position of England, Scotland and Wales? (E= England S= Scotland W = Wales)

2. If figure （圖形） one  below shows the area(面積) of Scotland, which picture in Figure two represents the area of Great Britain?         

( Figure 1  )　　　　　 　　　　　 Figure2:

3. If Figure one below shows the population of the island, which picture in Figure two shows the population of Wales?