I’ve loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it as Mother sat doing letters. Standing by her chair, looking at the ink bottle, pens, and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

   Years later, during her final illness, Mother kept different things for my sister and brother. “But the desk”, she said, “is for Elizabeth”.

   I never saw her angry, never saw her cry. I knew she loved me, she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.

   They never happened. And a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional”. But she lived “on the surface”

   As years passed and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way she chose that she did forgive me.

   I posted the letter and waited for her answer. None came.

   My hope turned to disappointment，then little interest, finally, peace---it seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to Mother. I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.

   Now the present of her desk told me, as she’d never been able to, that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside---a photo of my father and a one-page letter, folded(被折疊) and refolded many times.

Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose, Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.

81. The writer began to love her mother’s desk________.

A. after Mother died         B. before she became a writer

C. when she was a child       D. when Mother gave it to her

82. The passage shows that__________.

A. Mother wrote her daughter in careful words

   B. Mother cared much about her daughter in words

   C. Mother was too serious about everything her daughter had done

   D. Mother was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter

83. The word “gulf” in the passage means________.

   A. part of the sea going far in land

   B. free talks between mother and daughter

   C. different ideas between the mother and the daughter

   D. deep understanding between the old and the young

84. What did Mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgiveness?

   A. She had never received the letter.     

   B. She read the letter again and again till she died.

   C. For years, she often talked about the letter.

   D. She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in her life.

85. What’s the best title of the passage?

   A. My letter to Mother        B. Mother and Children

   C. My Mother’s Desk         D. Talks between Mother and Me

 We agreed ____ here but so far she hasn’t turned up yet .

   A. having met         B. meeting            C. to meet                    D. to have met

It was the second day of the three-day Golden Beach Music Festival on Huangdao Peninsula, west of Qingdao, one of China's most renowned coastal tourist cities. Lines of orange beach umbrellas stood out along the coastline against the big blue sea and sunny sky. Brightly colored tents dotted Golden Beach, which is said to be the best beach in China with the longest stretch of untainted silver sand.

With one hour to go before the start of the show on September 13, Liu Siyuan, one of the festival's chief promoters, was sitting alone at the sound-mixing station with his head buried in a box lunch. His cellphone, which was close at hand, kept ringing from time to time and Liu picked it up to answer all kinds of questions and give orders on everything from booking train tickets to disposing of trash.. “I'm so busy these days, since I have to arrange everything for the festival. How would I know how to deal with the garbage on the beach?” he said.

But that didn't matter a bit to festival goers. On the first day, more than 1,000 music fans, local residents and tourists gathered at Golden Beach to enjoy dynamic music mixed with local beer, sea breeze and sunshine.

“This is the most unforgettable music festival I've ever attended,” said Mu Er, a music fan and magazine editor who came all the way from Shanghai especially for the beach festival. Mu has been to many other domestic music festivals, including those held on grassland and in city parks.

“Nothing can compare to the beach music experience, which is so extraordinary, relaxing and so much fun,” she said, while wandering around a market where vendors sold postcards, CDs, hats, masks, rock-themed T-shirts and other small handmade products.

Festival goers turned the beach into a giant playground—playing football, swimming, riding motorcycles, flying kites, or just simply sitting on the beach and drinking beer. "(The beach is) damn awesome!" said Joe, a musician from Wales who plays bass with a local five-piece rock band called The Dama Llamas, as he was about to go on stage.

60. Mu Er, a music fan and magazine editor, came to Golden Beach            

  A. to see the best beach                  B. to be on holiday

  C. to play his own music                 D. to attend the music festival

61. Mu Er felt the most interested in         

 A. buying postcards                   B. wandering around

 C. experiencing the beach music         D. selling hats and T-shirts

62. It can be inferred that festival goers         

 A. have a lot of fun on the beach        B. have built a giant playground

 C. play football every day             D. sit and drink free beer every day

Every pet owner loves his pet. There is no argument here.

But when we asked our readers whether they would clone(克隆) their beloved animals, the answers were split almost down the middle. Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would clone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion.

Clearly, from readers’ response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and final sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to people’s widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure.

Most of the respondents (被調(diào)查的人) who liked the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope a clone could never truly recreate a pet, many simply didn’t wish to go against the natural law of life and death.

Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More than a few respondents owned “the best dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend”, “a member of the family,” “the light of my life.” They told moving stories of pets’ heroism(英勇精神), cleverness and selfless devotion.

“People become very close to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away…It’s understandable. Death is always painful. It’s difficult to deal with. It’s hard to accept.”

　　But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seemed to be at the heart of this problem.

71. So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners, __________.

A. a lot more of them are for it  

B. a lot more of them are against it

C. very few of them are willing to tell their opinions

D. about half of them are for it and the other half against it

72. While talking about the respondents from the readers, the underlined expression “final sadness of owning a pet” refers to ___________.

A. the death of one’s pet   

B. the high cost of owning a pet

C. the troubles one has to deal with in keeping a pet

D. the dangers involved in the cloning of a pet

73. In spite of(盡管) their differences on the problem of cloning, it seems that ________.

A. all pet owners try to go against the natural law of life and death

B. all pet owners love their pets very much

C. people who support cloning love their pets more

D. people who dislike cloning love their pets more

74. From what Gary Kowalski says, we can know that he _________.

A. has never thought about the problem of cloning

B. is going to write another book on pets

C. support the idea of cloning pets

D. is all against the cloning of pets

75. What is the key question at the heart of the problem of cloning pets?

A. Can cloning make one suffers less pain when a pet dies?

B. Can pet owners afford the cost of cloning?

C. Does cloning go against the law of nature?

D. Can cloning really produce an exact copy of one’s pet?

If you keep_____,you can sit on _____side of the boat.

A.quite,either   B.still,either     C.calm,each         D.silent,both

 -----He promised to come to see you.

   ----But he _____. I’ve been all alone.

A. didn’t          B. wouldn’t           C. hasn’t           D. won’t

 I was ________ to find that I won the competition to design a new computer. The news was really _______.

A amazing ; exciting  B amazed ; excited  C amazed ; exciting   D amazing ; excited

——Can I join your club,dad?

   ——You can when you______a bit older. 

A.get    B.will get    C.are getting    D.will have got

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閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

A famous scientist was asked why he was able to be so much more   36  than the average person. What set him so far apart from others?

He  37  that it all came from a (n)  38   that occurred when he was three. He was trying to  39   a bottle of milk from refrigerator when he lost told of the bottle. spilling its  40   all over the kitchen floor.

Instead of   41   at him, his mother said,“       Robert, what a wonderful  42  you have made! I have  43   seen such a huge puddle (水坑) of milk, Since the  44  is done, would you like to get down and play in the milk for a while  45  cleaning it up?”

Indeed, he did. “Robert,  46    you make a mess like this,  47  you have to clean it up and restore everything to its  48   order,” And then together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said.” Robert, that is a   49   experiment in how to  50   carry a big milk bottle. Let’s go out to the yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can  51   a way to carry a bottle of water without dropping it.

The scientist remarked he learned from that moment that mistakes were just 52  for learning something new, which is  53    scientific experiments are all about. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work”, we usually learn something  54   from it.

Wouldn’t it be great if all  55    would respond like Robert’s mother?

36.  A．hard-working      B. creative             C. popular             D. outstanding

37.  A. responded            B. acknowledged    C. assumed            D. declared

38.  A. experiment                  B. coincidence           C. experience      D. conflict

39.  A. deliver                    B. return            C. move                D. remove

40.  A. mixture                   B. water             C. liquid             D. contents

41.  A. yelling                    B. coming             C. nodding            D. laughing

42.  A. mistake                   B. mess                 C. trick              D. treasure

43.  A. always                    B. often              C. rarely             D. ever

44.  A. damage                   B. business            C. favor             D. harm

45.  A. before                         B. after              C. with                  D. without

46.  A. whatever              B. however            C. wherever           D. whenever

47.  A. especially            B. eventually      C. respectively           D.immediately

48.  A. opposite               B. particular       C. proper            D. natural

49.  A. failed                   B. forbidden       C. demanded          D. deserved

50.  A. absolutely            B. comfortably       C. confidentially    D. effectively

51.  A. develop                   B. grasp             C. invent            D. discover

52.  A. choices                   B. opportunities   C. qualities         D. procedures

53.  A. that                     B. where            C. what                 D. which

54.  A. right                    B. valuable            C. practical         D. accessible

55.  A. managers             B. directors         C. parents              D. relatives

       One hundred new bookstalls that will sell newspapers as well as books have been making their debut on city streets since Saturday morning.

       The newsstands are part of the city’s efforts to improve the appearance of streets and neighborhoods. The news-stands’ design, featuring large glass window, will help the customers to see what is on sale at a glance.

       An electrical screen on the newsstands will announce immediately the arrival of the latest papers. The newsstands will also help collect utility fees. There will be 1,000 newsstands by the end of the year. The newly formed Oriental Books and Papers Service Co. Ltd will manage the stalls. According to sources from the company, over 80 percent of the people hired to operate the stands will be recruited from laid-off workers. This means the project will help ease the city’s unemployment pressure, sources said.

       All recruited will undergo a training programme and be clad in green uniform. Municipal Vice-part Secretary Gong Xueping said the installation of the 100 stands was just the first step towards the objective of setting up 1,000 stands in the city by the end of the year.

       He said the creation of the stalls would be of particular significance to the enhancement of the city’s spiritual civilization. He also made some suggestions regarding the location, design, and construction of the new stands, and the renovation of the existing newsstands.

57. One hundred new bookstalls are set up to _______ .

A. classify the bookstores                                 

B. beautify the streets and neighborhood

C. enrich people’s minds with knowledge           

D. increase people’s purchasing power

58.The newsstands are made of large glass windows to ______ .

A. beautify the streets                        

B. differ from other shops

C. let the customers browse through what they want

D. reduce the expenses of the construction

59.Which sentence is not true?

The newsstands also help gather together other public service charges

The newsstands will make known the arrival of the current issue of paper.

These kinds of newsstands will widely set up.

The newsstands just sell newspapers and magazines.

60.What is the other purpose of building these newsstands? Give the laid—off workers a chance

to _______.

A. make a living                              B. take up hobbies

C. ease their pressure                        D. enrich their minds