I am one of the many city people who are always saying that given the choice we would better like to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. Weren’t it for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village. But how realistic is the dream?

Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population live in huge tower blocks, noisy, dirty, cold and unfeeling . The sense of belonging to a community tends（傾向）to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of flats. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants（居民）of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks don’t even say hello to each other.

Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated（隔離）existence because a sense of community generally ties the inhabitants of small villages together. But country life has disadvantages too. It is true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There’s little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping becomes a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go on and expedition to the nearest large town. The city-people who leave for the country are often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quietness.

What, then, of my dreams of leaning on a cottage gate and murmuring “morning” to the locals as they pass by? I’m eager for the idea, but you see there’s my cat, Toby. I’m not at all sure that he would take to all that fresh air and exercise in the long grass. I mean, can you see him mixing with all those hearty males down the farm? No, he would rather have the electric fire any evening.

72. We learn from Paragraph 1 that the writer          .

A. used to live in the country            B. used to work in the city

C. works in the city.                        D. lives in the country.

73. In the writer’s opinion, the following may cause city people to be unhappy EXCEPT ___.

A. a strong sense of fear             B. a lack of communication.

C. housing conditions.                D. a sense of isolation.

74. The text implies that it is NOT easy to buy           in the country.

A. agricultural produce                 B. fresh fruits

C. fresh vegetable                        D. designed clothes

75. Which of the following words best describes those people who work in large cities and live in villages ?

A. Original                    B. Quiet                 C. Proud               D. Senseless

Nothing lives forever. Is that right ?Wrong. It seems hard to believe that there are some animals that do not die. They are very simple creatures , too small to be seen without the help of a microscope. While most animals, including human beings, have billions of cells in their bodies , these little death defiers have only one. Each cell lives for a certain length of time, and then it splits to form two new animals. The adult animal turn itself into two babies .All of the new cells finally divide, but none die unless they are killed by accident or disease.

There are other cells that avoid being old. Cells from old mice have been moved into young mice over and over again, each time the body they are in wears out . In their new bodies the old cells seem to begin life over again. They divide and grow just like young cells.

Is there any way to discover the secret of these cells’ youth and apply it to human being? Not yet. But scientists are still searching, and they may be closer than ever to finding an answer. Of course , some ways to increase our chance of living longer. Like good food and exercise, have been known for years. Progress against killer disease has already raised the human life to more than seventy years, compared with less than fifty years a century ago. Now scientists are studying other ways to fight against death. They will never give up their efforts until they win their final success.

68. What is the passage mainly about ?

A. The law governing the growth of all creatures

B. The secret of getting old

C. Ways to begin life over again

D. Certain cells that never die

69. What does the phrase“death defiers”refer to ?

A. Animals that fear nothing                   B. Cells that can’t be understood

C. Animals that don’t die                     D. Cells that finally die in a normal way

70. Scientists are interested in these one-cell animals because they want to        .

A. find out how these tiny animals fight against diseases

B. discover the relations between human bodies and these animals

C. learn how these cells can split into new cells

D. look for ways of keeping human life much longer

71. What is the writer’s attitude towards the possibility for human beings to live longer?

A. Confident                 B. Doubtful                   C. Uncertain                 D. Respectful

Wang Li is an excellent college student and she wants to go to the US for her doctor’s degree. So she had to write to her foreign teacher in America for help. The first big problem is a house because she doesn’t like to live in the university. Her teacher got some information for her to rent house in the US and sent it to her by E-mail. Of all the information she found the two pieces are what she likes. They are :

64. In the first piece of information Wany Li        .

A. can be allowed to use kitchen once a month

B. will have to pay $150-$185 for the furniture

C. will have no room with furniture

D. will have to pay $150-$185 for the house with furniture every month

65. In the second piece of information         .

A. the house is a beautiful building in the style of colony (殖民地)

B. only the colonial students can rent this house

C. the house still belongs to the colony

D. the house is in beautiful colony

66. What kind of person is not welcome in the second piece of information?

A. A flower lover                  B. A lover of cats

C. A heavy smoker                D. A part-time worker

67. Which is NOT true in the second piece of information?

A. You can go to highway easily

B. You have a place for parking your car

C. Your kitchen is just being equipped

D. You have more than one garden

Lipstick plays an important role in attraction and can even protect the lips from drying out in harsh weather. No wonder it’s the most important thing in a women’s cosmetics(化妝品)bag.

Colouring the lips is certainly not a new idea. It was practiced as early as 3500 BC.

In the past , a natural dye was used to paint lips. It was not until the 17th century that lipstick manufacturing really took off. The lipstick was made of mixtures that included pig fat and red sandalwood . It was kept in tiny pots and applied with a colouring stick.

Lipstick was invented and first presented by Parisian perfumeries(香料商)in Amsterdam. But these “l(fā)ittle red sausages”were less than practical. They were wrapped in silk paper and the ends had to be broken off before each use. They also did not come cheap.

Over the years the sticks became less expensive and new colours were developed. But it was not until 1950 that lipstick accidentally was reinvented―this time by the Americans.

Today there are so many types of lipsticks and shades that it is hard to keep track of them. Faced with many choices in the cosmetic departments, it is easy to forget that there is a whole science to manufacturing them.

The basic materials are colours, oils and waxes. But they can contain up to 30 different materials. Lipstick manufactures have to achieve a careful balance.“You need a thicker oil to make the lipstick last longer, but a thinner one to make it easy to apply,”says Cornelia Riedel, product developer at Nivea Beaute in Hamburg.

Different oils also provide protection for lips, preventing them from drying up. The waxes used in lipsticks must strike the right balance between strength and elasticity(彈性）.And up to nine different colouring matters could be needed to find the right shade.

No one today need fear dangerous materials in lipsticks. A study by a leading German Consumer Organization found dangerous materials such as lead or cadmium, are hardly a problem any more―even in the cheapest products.

Today, the question is whether to choose between a conventional lipstick or a newer, long-lasting variety.

60. Lipstick plays an important role in women’s life because       .

A. it can show they are rich                

B. it can show they are healthy

C. they want to keep their body temperature

D. they want to be more attractive

61. It can be inferred from this passage that________.

A. Americans were the first to use lipsticks

B. lipsticks were colourless at first

C. modern lipsticks came out by chance

D. lipsticks have been made from the same materials

62. The underlined phrase“keep track of”in this passage means________.

A. find　　　B. follow         C. use            D. store

63. We know from this passage that________.

A. lipsticks are much cheaper than before

B. lipsticks are much harder than before

C. lipsticks are more dangerous than before

D. lipsticks are much safer than before

The closest friend I ever have is Jack Benny. He is gentle, kind, beautiful… I love him. But Jack is one of those people whom little things bother . Big things never faze him .One day he was having lunch at our club ,and that very day he had just signed a $ 3 million contract, I knew about it . I knew about it . so I walked over to congratulate him , But he looked very depressed.

I said, “Jack, is anything wrong?” “Yeah, my coffee isn’t hot,” he answered. “Is that why you’re upset?” “How can they serve lukewarm coffee?” he exclaimed. “Jack, you just signed a $ 3 million dollars contract.” He glared at me and said, “That doesn’t make the coffee any hotter!”

That was Tuesday. On Thursday the television ratings came out, and Jack’s show had dropped six points. Now you all know what the ratings mean in our business. If you drop one point, you want to kill yourself. There was Jack have lunch again. I was his friend so I should console him. I went up to him, but instead of being depressed, he had a big smile on his face … I think you can guess why ?

56. What may be Benny’s career ?

A. A coffee fan              B. A coffee salesman

C. A television host        D. A club member

57. What does the underlined word mean ?

A. Comfort            B. Please        C. Touch        D. Laugh

58. We can infer          makes Benny smile at the end of the story.

A. the $ 3 million contract                    B. the rising TV rating

C. my appearance                               D. the hot coffee

59. Which of the following statements will I agree to ?

A. Hot coffee can make people have a good mood

B. Friends can make people smile

C. Without little things, people will be happy

D. People shouldn’t be fazed by little things

He has been called the “missing link ”. Half-man , half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest.

He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The __36__ of the Snowman has been around for___37__. Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they __38__ this creature and called it the “Yeti”, and they said that they had ___39___ caught Yetis on two occasions ___40___ none has ever been produced as evidence (證據(jù)).

Over the years, the story of the Yetis has __41__. In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not __42___ the tracks of a monkey or bear and ___43__that the Abominable Snowman might really ___44___.

Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were ___45___ footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than __46___ animal tracks, which had been made ___47___ as the melted(融化) and refroze in the snow. ___48___, in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was ___49__ and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, ___50__, no evidence has ever ___51__been produced.

These days, only a few people continue to take the story of Abominable Snowman _52__, But if they ever ___53___catching one, they may face a real __54__. Would they put it in a ___55__ or give it a room in a hotel?

―I am really angry with Jane, she never listens to me .

―          , things will work out .

A. Take your time         B. No problem              C. Take it easy              D. I am sorry

―What about the books ?

―Books of this kind        well.

A. sell                   B. sells                  C. are sold             D. is sold

We wanted to finish the task before dark, but it didn’t quite          as planned.

A. turn out                    B. make out                  C. go on                D. come up

More and more people in China prefer to choose       cheap wireless phone service known as      “l(fā)ittle smart”.

A. a , the               B. a , /                   C. the, the                    D. the, /