Read the following jokes and answer the questions:

1. A driver tucked this note under the windshield wiper of his car. "I've circled the block for 20 minutes. I'm late for an appointment, and if I don't park here I'll lose my job." When he came back he found a parking ticket and this note: "I've circled the block for 20 years, and if I don't give you a ticket, I'll lose my job. "   

2. The warden of the prison felt sorry for one of his inmates because every weekend on Visitor's Day, most of the prisoners had family members and friends coming, but poor George always sat alone in his cell. So one Visitor's Day, the warden called George to his office and said, "I notice you've never had any visitors, George." Sympathetic, he put his hand on George's shoulder. "Tell me, don't you have any friends or family?" George replied, "Oh, sure I do, Warden. It's just that __     ____!"

3. In a country home that seldom had guests, a young son was eager to help his mother after his father appeared with two dinner guests. When the dinner was nearly over, the boy went to the kitchen and proudly carried in the first piece of apple pie, giving it to his father, who passed it to a guest. The boy came in with a second piece of pie and gave it to his father, who again gave it to a guest. This was too much for the boy, who said, "It's no use, Dad. The pieces are all the same size."

76.  Why did the driver get a ticket in the 1^st joke ? (no more than 9 words)

77.  What was the feeling does the warden have for the prisoner?（no more than 2 words)

78.  Fill in the blank in the 2^nd joke to make it a nice one. (no more than 6 words)

79.  What does this mean in the 3^rd joke? (no more than 15 words)

80.  What does the boy really mean in the 3^rd joke? (no more than 12 words)

More surprising，perhaps，than the present difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is  alive and thriving．As Skolnick notes，Americans are a marrying people：relative to Europeans，more of us marry and we marry at a younger age．Moreover, after a drop in the early l950s，the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing．Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context：some 30 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus，marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.

What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family．Twenty five years ago，the typical American family was made up of a husband，a wife，and two or three children. Now there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children．And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife's former marriage，or the husband’s，or both．Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage；sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses(配偶)．

Thus，one can find every type of family arrangement．There are marriages without children；Marriages with children from only the present marriage；Marriages with “full time” children from both the present and former marriages；Marriages with “full time” children from the present marriage and “part time”，children from former marriages．There are stepfathers，stepmothers，half brothers, and half sisters．It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are great changes from the traditional nuclear family．But even so，even in the midst of all this，there remains one constant：Most Americans spend most of their adult lives married．

71．By calling American marrying people the author means that           .

A．Americans are more traditional than Europeans

B．Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans

C．there are more married couples in U．S．A．than in Europe

D．more of Americans，as compared with Europeans，prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age

72．Divorced Americans           .

A．prefer the way they live                                B．will most likely to remarry

C．have lost faith in marriage                             D．a(chǎn)re the vast majority of people in the society

73．Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?

A．Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable．

B．A typical American family is made up of only a husband and a wife．

C．Americans prefer to have more kids than before．

D．There are no nuclear families any more．

74．“Part time” children           .

A．spend some of their time with their half brothers and some of their time with their half sisters

B．spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriage

C．a(chǎn)re shared between the two former spouses

D．can not stay with “full time” children

75．Even though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families，          .

A．the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriage

B．the functions of marriage remain unchanged

C．most Americans prefer a second marriage

D．most divorced Americans would rather not remarry

Beijing's historic hutong are in danger of disappearing. That's the warning from residents and historians, who have called on authorities to do more to protect this unique part of the capital's culture.

In 2000, Beijing still had 1,300 hutong, according to amateur historian Zhang Wei. But he estimates that since then, at least half of them have disappeared.

According to regulations, people can report illegal buildings to urban patrol officers, known as chengguan, and buildings found to be illegal will be demolished by force.

However, a China Daily reporter found that it was not an easy task, and lots of additional structures built by their owners were found in hutong. Many owners added a second floor or even more floors to their houses, especially in buildings near main streets, in order to rent more apartments and make more money.

Zhang, the historian, said that to better protect the hutong, the government should offer more compensation to residents willing to move away. Guo Dazhi, a photojournalist in Beijing, lived in a hutong for nearly 30 years before moving to eastern Chaoyang district. Guo hopes that the government can solve the problem by moving residents out of hutong with policies such as public renting programs.

However, the Beijing Commission of Urban Planning said in a report in July that the relocation of residents from old areas was very expensive.According to the report, allocating 10,000 residents costs 1.5 billion yuan .

66. What made Beijing’s historic hutong in danger?

A. The fast development of the city                   B. Some people build unlawful construction 

C. Population growing                               D. Pollution

67. What does demolish mean in para.3?

A .pull down                      B. build up          C. clean up                   D. wash up

68. Who is mainly in charge of the illegal building?

A .Policemen                    B. The army       C.  Chengguan           D. The local committee

69. What is the suggestion mentioned of solving the problem?

A. moving residents out of hutong with force         B. introduce social capital for investment in constructure

C. offer more money to residents willing to move away.                                   D. build more hutong

70. How many hutong exist up till now?

A. 1300                            B.300                        C. 2000                     D.600

The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

    As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, self-improvement. Ask a bachelor(單身漢）,why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features. Couples with baby children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.

    Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can really increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

61. What is the author trying to tell us?

A. One must know how to attain happiness.         B. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain 

C. It is important to make commitments.               D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

62. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ____________ .

    A. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

B. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

C. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

D. he is unwilling to take on family responsibilities

63. Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ____________ .

A. a moral duty          B. a thankless job           C. a rewarding task    D. a source of unavoidable pain

64. To understand what true happiness is one must ____________ .

      A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

C. put up with pain under all circumstances

D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

65. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes comes from ____________ .

A. misunderstanding                  B.hate        C. pride                                   D. ignorance

Do you want to write your password down so that no one can see it, or do you want to send someone a secret message? Knowing how to make an invisible ink message will have you feeling like a secret agent in no time. These are instructions for making invisible ink using baking soda.
Difficulty: Easy
Time required: A few minutes
What you need:
Baking soda, Paper, Water, Light bulb, Paintbrush, Measuring cup, Purple grape juice
Here's how:
There are at least two methods of using baking soda as invisible ink. Mix equal amounts of water and baking soda.
Use a paintbrush to write a message onto white paper, using the baking soda solution (溶液) as "ink".
Allow the ink to dry.
One way to read the message is to hold the paper up to a heat source, such as a light bulb. The baking soda will cause the writing in the paper to turn brown.
The second way to read the message is to paint over the paper with purple grape juice. The message will appear in a different color.
Tips:
If you are using the heating method, avoid burning the paper.
Baking soda and grape juice react in an acid-base (酸堿) reaction, producing a color change in the paper.
Grape juice concentrate (濃縮物) results in a more visible color change than regular grape juice.

56.           is not needed for making invisible ink.

A. Baking soda                  B. Paper                                   C. Water                           D. Ink

57. What's the function of the paintbrush?

A. To draw a picture.                                                     B. To allow the "ink" to appear. 

C. To write a message onto the white paper.                            D. To help the "ink" dry.

58. How can you read the message in invisible ink easily?

A. read it in the daytime                                             B. read it near a heater

C. Put it in hot water                                                 D. put it in a fridge

59. Why will the message appear in a different color in the second way to read the massage?

A. Because there is enough grape juice.                          B. Because baking soda reacts with grape juice.

C. Because of the use of water.                                   D. Because of the special paper.

60. From the process, we can know that making invisible ink is           .

A. very hard                             B. not difficult                    C. a little difficult                D. not easy

According to the United Nations, an aging society refers to one    45     10 percent or more of the population is over 60, or 7 percent or more is over 65. According to    46      from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, by 2008, Chinese over 60 years old made up 12 percent of the nation's total population. The     47      for those aged 65 or older was 8.3 percent.

In China, people have a belief that "parents raise children; then the children look after the parents as they get old"．But this    48      is under stress as the market economy puts millions of young Chinese on the road

     49     better paying jobs．They are leaving their parents     50     ．Now many families are looking more to the government than to their     51      for support when they're old．China has increased its basic social security plan which is a program     52      those     53      , including the old, the disabled and others．    54     these programs are now broad, they are still not highly developed．With more people    55      old , China will have fewer working people, which will slow down economic growth．

45．A．where                   B．when                           C．which                    D．that

46．A．a(chǎn) article                B．a(chǎn)n email                             C．a(chǎn) magazine           D．a(chǎn) report

47．A．conclusion           B．character                            C．figure                   D．survey

48．A．tradition                      B．opinion                        C．saying                  D．way

49．A．in favor of            B．in search of                 C．in the way of         D．in face of

50．A．out                       B．off                                C．a(chǎn)head                  D．behind

51．A．friends                 B．relatives                             C．parents                D．children

52．A．punishing             B．predicting                    C．protecting             D．preventing

53．A．in danger                    B．in need                        C．in debt                  D．in disaster

54．A．While                   B．When                          C．Since                    D．Now that

55．A．grew                     B．grown                          C．grow                     D．growing

At first my new     36      were difficult to tolerate. The air seemed thin,    37      its combination of gas had little oxygen left. Hit by     38      fresh air, my head ached. Just as I tried to make necessary adjustment     39      this new situation, Wang Ping appeared. “    40      this mask”, he advised, “It will make you feel much better”. I feel better    41     . Soon I was back on my feet again and following him to collect a hovering carriage    42     by computer. Wang Ping fastened my safety belt and showed me how to use it. Soon I could fly as fast as him. However, I lost sight of him when we reached     43      looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying     44      all directions.

36．A．surrounds                   B．surroundings                      C．surrounding                D．surrounded

37．A．even if                              B．what if                         C．a(chǎn)s if                     D．only if

38．A．a(chǎn) lack of                     B．a(chǎn) lack for                    C．lack for                       D．lacks of

39．A．of                               B．on                               C．to                         D. at

40．A．Put up                       B．Put on                         C．Have on               D. Take up

41．A．in a time                     B．in one time                        C．in short time               D. in no time

42．A．to drive                      B．driving                        C．driven                  D. drives

43．A．it                                B．that                             C．which                   D. what

44．A．by                               B．a(chǎn)t                                      C．by in                   D. by at

Girls used to take fewer advanced math courses than boys but now they are taking just __________.

A．a(chǎn)s much                      B．too much                      C．a(chǎn)s many                 D．too many

On snowy days，you have to drive very__________ to avoid traffic accidents.

A．cautiously                     B．neatly                          C．smoothly               D．properly

—Do you think that the 11th Chinese National Games were a success?

—Yes，__________ ！It couldn't be__________ .

A．relatively；better           B．a(chǎn)pproximately；worse     C．a(chǎn)bsolutely；better   D．fortunately；worse