Put a little love in your life

  I remember growing up, my mom always said, “Half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others.” It is so true. Friends and mates allow us to enjoy our success and our joys, comfort us in our challenging moments, and provide a mirror for us to learn more about ourselves. I’ve always looked at friends as the family we choose. They enrich our lives. As Robert Louis Steven once said, “A friend is a present which you give yourself.”

   To be a good friend or partner, it’s importable be a good listener. Hear what your friend or mate has to say first rather than jumping to conclusions or getting defensive. Sometimes it is useful to be their mirror, for when they hear their words repeated back to them, it can help them to realize that what they said was not exactly what they meant to say.

   Patience, compassion and empathy are also important traits in being a good friend or partner. You know the old golden rule, “Care for others the way you would like them to care for you.” The support of a friend during a tough time could make the difference between success and failure. Encouragement and confidence are priceless gifts that can help change a person’s life.

   Take care, though, with whom you choose to have close relationship, for they can have a tremendous impact on your self-esteem and life path. As someone once told me, “the attitude of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or down.”

51. In order to make good friends, you should do the following except

     A. Be a good listener

     B. Be patient, compassionate

     C. Be careful

     D. Be generous to your friends

52. What will you do to your friends according to the passage?

     A. Buy your friend a mirror.

     B. Point out their mistakes if there is any

     C. Give them encouragement and confidence.

     D. Pay attention what they do

53. What does the underlined sentence in the passage mean?

     A. It is different whether you have friends or not.

     B. The support of friends counts when you have difficulties.

     C. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

     D. You are certain to succeed if you get the support of friends.

54. Which of the following statements is not right according to the passage?

     A. It is good to share your fun with other.    

     B. The friend is a mirror for us to learn more about others.

    C. You’d better be a good listener if you want to be a good friend.

    D. Be careful to choose your friend.

  About 6,000doctors in the Philippines are studying to become nurses so they can find higher-paying jobs abroad, Health Secretary Francisco Duque says.

  This was up from 2,000 doctors who studied to become nurses last year, Duque said.

  The exodus of doctors and nurses had created a “threatening situation for our health care system” and a task force had been established to examine the potential impact, he said.

  The team was working on a bill which would require doctors to practice in the Philippines for at least three to four years before they were able to work abroad.

  “I think the problem really is the migration of doctors. We have so many nurses now, more than enough to fill up(vacancies). But our doctors are leaving,” Duque said.

   A study by the University of the Philippines had found that between 2000to 2003 more than 50,000 Filipino nurses went abroad to work. A doctor working in a government hospital in the Philippines earns only about 25,000 pesos(446 dollars) a month. A  doctor could earn around 8,000dollars a month while working as a nurse overseas. Even lawyers, accountants and engineers are enrolling to brain as nurses.

   Filipino nurses are in demand in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and even closer to home, such as in Singapore and Japan.

   However, Health officials have warned the country faces a “medical apocalypse” if it continues to lose its health professionals to jobs abroad.

55. The word “exodus” in Para3 can be probably explained by__   

   A. return of lots of people                 B. leave of many people at one time         

   C. fight between different people        D. exchange of positions between people

56. Which of the following statements about the doctor in the Philippines is true?

   A. Many doctors started to study to become nurses this year.

   B. More than 50,000Filipino doctors went abroad to work between 2000to 2003.

   C. A doctor could earn as much as a nurse overseas in a government hospital at home.

   D. Many doctors went abroad because of the poor working conditions at home.

57. According to the passage, why do so many doctors leave to work abroad as nurses?

   A. Because they don’t like the working surroundings at home.

   B. Because they like to be nurses and live abroad.

   C. Because they can make much more money abroad.

   D. Because the government hospitals at home never value them.

58. What is the aim of this short passage?

   A. To criticize the Philippine government.

   B. To show pity on the doctors in the Philippines.

   C. To call on people to change their jobs and work as nurses.

   D. To call attention to the problems with lack of doctors in the Philippines.

    The first day of school our professor introduced someone we didn’t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, “Hi, handsome man. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

  “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids, and then retire and travel.”

   “No seriously,’ I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having college education and how I’m getting one!” she told me.

Over the course of the school year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled(盡情享受)in the attention bestowed(給予)upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. She leaned into the microphone and simply said, “we do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humour every day. You’ve got to have a dream, When you lose your dreams, you die. There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability.”

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

59. What qualities did Rose have according to the passage?

     A. Humourous and determined

     B. Critical and humourous

     C. Hard-working but indifferent

     D. Pretty but old

60. Why was Rose in college at such an age?

     A. To find a rich husband at such an age.

     B. To realize her dream of having college education.

     C. To further her education for a better job.

     D. To make more young friends.

6l. Rose once made a great speech.

     A. at the graduation ceremony.

     B. at a football banquet

     C. at an annual meeting

     D. at a baseball banquet

62. From what Rose said, we learn that

     A. everyone will end up growing older.

     B. we can’t stay young successfully.

     C. we can achieve much if we want to.

     D. dream is the key to success.

  Seated on a rock, she could be waiting for a bus. But if so, she could be in for a terribly long wait.

  A photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched was among several taken on Mars and sent back to Earth by NASA’s Mars explorer Spirit, Britain’s Daily Mail reported yesterday. Though no official confirmation has come from NASA on whether the figure is an alien or an optical illusion(視錯覺)caused by landscape on Mars, it has set the Internet an excited discussion whether there really is life on Mars.

As one enthusiast put it on the newspaper’s website: “These pictures are amazing. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw what appears to be a naked alien running around on Mars.” Another wrote: “If you show me another rock in another photo from Mars that naturally looks like that, I will reconsider.” A third contributor, who came closer to the majority’s view, said: “Ah, the human eye can be tricked so easily.”

The news of the mystery woman on Mars came just days after a team of French scientists claimed to have discovered a proof that Mars has high dense clouds of dry ice, which float quickly across its orange sky, Indian newspaper Hindustan Times reported.

Using data obtained by OMEGA spectrometer on board European Space Agency’s Mars Express, the team found the existence of ice clouds which sometimes become so dense(密集)that they throw quite dark shadows on the dusty surface of the planet.

63. What does “she” in the first paragraph refer to?

   A. an unknown woman             B. a mystery alien

   C. an optical illusion                 D. a lady-shaped image

64. According to the passage, what’s the majority’s view of the female-shaped photo?

   A. They think it must be a photo a mystery woman on Mars.                        

   B. They think it couldn’t be a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.

   C. They are not sure that it is a photo from a mystery woman on Mars.            

   D. They don’t express their opinions on the female-shaped photo.

65. From the passage, we can know that     .

   A. there must be water existing on Mars.               B. there must be a certain of life on Mars.

   C. there is low dense clouds of dry ice on Mars.     D. the surface of Mars is orange and rocky.

66. The first paragraph mainly serves to.

   A. attract readers’ attention

   B. describe a mystery woman

   C. introduce the mystery photo

   D. prove the discovery of life on Mars

 Women are now as likely to use the Internet as men-about two-thirds of both genders---yet a new study shows that gaps remain in what each sex does online.

 American men who go online are more likely than women to check the weather, the news, sports, political and financial information, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported Wednesday. They are also more likely to use the Internet to download music and software and to take a class.

Online women, meanwhile, are bigger users of e-mail, and they are also more likely to go online for religious information and support for health or personal problems.

“For men, it’s just, ‘give me the facts,’” said Deborah Fallows, who wrote the report based on six years of Pew surveys, “For women, its ‘Let’s talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?’ It’s keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.”

About two- thirds of the 6,403 adults surveyed by Pew during 2005 said they use the Internet. By gender, it was 68%of the male respondents, and 66%of the female participants---a statistically insignificant(不重要的)difference given the study’s margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2%points. In 2002, by contrast, the gap was slightly larger: 61%vs. 57%.

The surverys find that for many activities, such as getting travel information or looking up a phone number, men and women are equally likely to use the Internet.

67. According to the passage, which of the following is not what American men who go online do?

   A. Checking the weather and the news.

   B. Searching for religious information.

   C. Downloading some music.

   D. Taking a class.

68. What is the probable meaning of the sentence “gap remain in what each sex does online”?

   A. There are some difference between men and women in the US.                 

   B. There is a slight difference between the numbers of men and women online in the US.             

   C. Men and women in the US have difference tastes about what they do online.           

   D. Men and women in the US have difference way of surfing the Internet.

69. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

   A. A small part of women in the US go on line today.

   B. Women in the US going on line are only concerned with personal problems.

   C. Men are still more likely to use the Internet than women.

   D. The gap between both sexes going online in 2002 was slightly larger than that in 2005.

70. What’s the author’s purpose of writing the article?

   A. To tell us the different aims of men and women in the US who go online.

   B. To show why men and women are equally likely to use the Internet.

   C. To teach us how to surf the Internet.

   D. To offer us some information of both sexes’ going online in the US.

                     (不是你的錯) that his bike is lost, so don’t blame yourself.  (fault)

春天到了，很多人愛上了爬山這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動。人們走進(jìn)了大自然，在鍛煉的身體的同時，領(lǐng)略了我們城市邊上的美麗山水。然而，有一些人缺乏環(huán)保意識，垃圾隨處亂扔，污染了綠色的山嶺。更糟糕的是，有些人在山林里吸煙，給森林防火留下了隱患。

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1.                     爬山是一項(xiàng)很好的運(yùn)動。

2.                     爬山所帶來的問題，

3.                     你的看法。

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Spring is drawing near.

Sincerely yours,

Lihua

 According to a recent survey of many bookstores, books on popular science are ______.  

A. in demand               B. in need            C. in charge                       D. in control

 With the economic crisis it is ________ difficult for a university graduate to find a job today.

       A. similarly                  B. equally             C. increasingly             D. possibly 

This type of camera will help you take perfect pictures however ______ the conditions are.

A. demanding                 B. dangerous        C. extraordinary           D. different