Marco Polo was the first European ever ______ to the East and to return with a story to tell.

A. traveling                 B. traveled                    C. to travel                   D. who traveling

--Did you get timely help from Jane?

-- No, she was busy. Otherwise we ______ what we wanted from her in time.

A. had got 　　　　　　　　　 B. could have got　　　　 C. should have got　　　　 D. would get

 Zhai Haifeng, the former director of the local housing administration bureau in Zhengzhou city,  has been detained after ________to own 29 properties.
A. finding    B.found    C.he had been found   D.  being found

He is afraid to face the difficulty he thinks he’ll have     the driving test tomorrow; he finds it difficult    rid of the worries．

  A．passed；to get    B．passing；to get

  C．to pass；getting  D．in passing；in getting

 A woman marries a man expecting him to change, but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting her not to change, but she ______ .                                

A. does              B. will            C. has              D. doesn't

It is a long time ________ they separated, but it won’t be long _____ they meet again.

　 A. since; before　 　　　　 B. after; when

C. since; when　　 　　　　　 D. after; before

   Directions: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假如你是一名英語(yǔ)課代表，發(fā)現(xiàn)部分同學(xué)對(duì)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)失去了信心。請(qǐng)你寫一篇詞數(shù)不少于100字的英語(yǔ)短文來(lái)鼓勵(lì)他們，喚起其對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的興趣。

寫作要點(diǎn)：

1、學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的重要性。

2、提高英語(yǔ)成績(jī)的措施（至少3點(diǎn)）。

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Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage.

Many people run after goals that they hope will make them happy, but happiness is not always the final result. So how does one decide which goals will end in personal happiness and which will not? How do the things in life affect personal happiness?

The most important thing is people’s attitude toward life, which can greatly affect their personal levels of happiness and satisfaction with life.

Psychologists have known for some time that optimism is a good way to fight against unhappiness. It’s probably no secret that optimistic people are considered to be much happier people than pessimists. There are specific characteristic features optimists have (pleasant ways of thinking), that bring them more success, greater health, increased life satisfaction, and other good things. If you became an optimist, it can mean that you became a very happy person, despite your circumstances, and it can actually bring more things into your life to be happy about.‘If you are optimistic and you think life is going to get better, it will become a self-fulfillment prediction.’says one of the scientists.‘Happy people manage to look on the bright side, even if they meet big problems on their way.’

 Positive psychologists believe that people can learn how to become happy, that everyone can teach themselves to see a half empty glass as half full. All they have to do is to spend time thinking about all the things that have gone right for them, rather than complaining what has gone badly. But people who are depressed usually think and worry about something that went wrong in the past.

81. What can affect people’s personal levels of happiness according to the passage?

(No more than 5 words)  

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82．Why are some people depressed according to the study? (No more than 14 words) 

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83. How do happy people deal with the big problems in their life? (No more than 8 words) 

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84．What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words) 

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Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Nowadays，studying abroad is popular in China with many rich parents. They would rather send their children abroad to receive education than let them be educated in China.

As every coin has two sides，studying abroad is not an exception (例外)．There are advantages for people to attend schools abroad. In the first place，he can use the foreign language in his daily life so that his ability in the second language may be greatly improved，as it is obvious that there is no better chance to improve the second language than living in the country where it is spoken. While studying in a foreign country，he will most likely meet many others from overseas and it is possible to make friends from all over the world. This is not only exciting on the social level，but could lead to important overseas contacts in his career as well. He can get familiar with the latest knowledge in science and make use of the first­rate facilities available. In this way, there is every chance that he is able to widen his horizon and broaden his mind.

Of course，attending schools abroad may bring about a series of problems. The most serious problem is language barrier．Most of the students who go abroad don’t have enough skills in the language spoken there. As a result，on arriving there，they will find it difficult to understand what the teachers say. Besides，for lack of knowledge of the customs of the local people，they may constantly run into trouble in dealing with various situations.

In conclusion，given an opportunity to attend a school abroad，one must consider both sides of the factors carefully before making up his mind. 

It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of words, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.

Memory can be considered as the ability to keep information available for later use. It includes not only “remembering” things like maths or historical facts but also involves（包括）any change in the way an animal acts . Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has smelt something different in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.

Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain equipment for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage ability of a computer with that of a human being. The instant-access memory(快速記憶) teenager probably recognizes the meanings of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is only a piece of total amount of information which the teenager has. For example, the teenager can recognize a large number of faces and places.

The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings.

A large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and combinations (組合) of words .

66. According to the passage, memory is considered to be 　　　　.

A. the basis for decision making

B. an ability to store information for future use

C. an ability owned only by human beings

D. the data mainly made up of words

67. From Paragraph 3 we can know that 　　　　.

A. the computer’s memory has a little bigger ability than a teenager’s

B. the computer’s memory ability is the same as a teenager’s

C. the computer’s memory ability is much smaller even than a teenager’s

D. the computer’s memory ability is as small as a teenager’s

68. The whole passage implies (暗示) that 　　　　.

A. only human being can solve problems

B. a person’s memory is different from a computer’s in every way

C. animals can only solve very simple problems

D. animals solve problems by intelligence

69. In people’s memory, ________ play the most important part in solving problems.

A. language　　　　　　 B. skills　　　　　　 C. experiences　　　　 D. habits

70. The main idea of this passage is 　　　　.

A. life will not change without memory

B. memory is of great importance to life

C. how a person’s memory is different from a computer’s

D. what is contained in memory