Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window .I would say to myself, “I wonder why that woman doesn’t wash her window .It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing(批評) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(評判) someone, I asked myself first ,“Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
【小題1】The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because_____.

A．the woman’s window was dirty

B．the writer’s window was dirty

C．the woman lived nearby

D．the writer was near-sighted

【小題2】The writer was surprised that ________.

A．the woman was sitting by her window

B．the woman’s window was clean.

C．the woman did cleaning in the afternoon

D．the woman’s window was still terrible

【小題3】“ It dawned on me” probably means “______”.

A．I began to understand it	B．it cheered me up
C．I knew it grew light	D．it began to get dark

【小題4】 It’s clear that________.

A．the writer had never met the woman before

B．the writer often washed the window

C．they both worked as cleaners

D．they lived in a small town

【小題5】 From the passage, we can learn_________.

A．one shouldn’t criticize others very often

B．one should often make his windows clean

C．one must judge himself before he judges others

D．one must look at others through his dirty window

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke（喚起） an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken”, as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “l(fā)imited English,” for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions（認(rèn)識）of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “l(fā)imited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken”, and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal（內(nèi)在的）language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
【小題1】By saying “Language is the tool of my trade”, the author means that ______.

A．she uses English in foreign trade

B．she is fascinated by languages

C．she works as a translator

D．she is a writer by profession

【小題2】The author used to think of her mother’s English as ______.

A．impolite

B．a(chǎn)musing

C．imperfect

D．practical

【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A．Americans do not understand broken English.

B．The author’s mother was not respected sometimes.

C．The author’ mother had positive influence on her.

D．Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.

【小題4】The author gradually realizes her mother’s English is ______.

A．well structured	B．in the old style
C．easy to translate	D．rich in meaning

【小題5】What is the passage mainly about?

A．The changes of the author’s attitude to her mother’s English.

B．The limitation of the author’s perception of her mother.

C．The author’s misunderstanding of “l(fā)imited” English.

D．The author’s experiences of using broken English.

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left a message the night before, telling me that my show was to be canceled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone,“ Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”
At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.
I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth?
She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room — if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”
Then she turned to me, kissed me, and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control. ” With that, she left the room.
After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.
【小題1】 Why did the author shout at the telephone?

A．He was mad at the telephone.	B．He was angry with his agent.
C．He was anxious about his wife.	D．He was impatient with the secretary.

【小題2】What did the author’s wife do after she heard his shouting?

A．She threw the phone away.	B．She shouted at him.
C．She called the agent.	D．She said nothing.

【小題3】What made the author laugh?

A．His changeable feelings.	B．His wife’s suggestion.
C．His own behavior.	D．His wife’s sweet kiss.

【小題4】 What does the underlined word “antics” refer to?

A．Smart words.	B．Anxious feelings.
C．Surprising looks.	D．Unusual actions.

At 20 year of age F.W. Woolworth found work in exchange for room and board at a local dry goods store , and after his employers held a successful clearance sale he saw the possibilities of a discount store. His key improvements were having the goods on open display instead of behind the counter , and having prices plainly marked instead of bargaining.
With borrowed funds he opened his first F.W. Woolworth store in the suburb of Utica, New York in 1879, but the store closed the following year . Deciding that his problem had been a poor location. He opened a new store in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylyania in 1881. Within months he was opening multiple stores in business partnerships with local retailers,and within a few years Woolworth was a millionaire. In 1909 he opened his first store in England, and in 1913 the company opened its new headquarters in New York’s Woolworth Building—then the tallest building in the world.
Woolworth had a deep fear of dentists , allowing his teeth to rot ,and died of a dental(牙齒)lunch counters in many stores , Woolworth was America’s largest restaurant chain through the 1940s. The company peaked as the world’s largest department store chain in the late 1970s, with more than 4 . 000 stores. By the late 1990s business was sputtering (噴濺), and the company closed all of its American department stores,renamed itself Venator, and sold the Woolworth Building . In 2003 Venator renamed itself after the company’s most successful division, Foot Locker, Inc . Under separate ownership , Woolworth stores are still operated in Austria , Germany , Mexico, South Africa , and the United Kingdom.
【小題1】The first F. W. Woolworth store failed mainly because     .

A．it was located too far away from the city center

B．it was a new brand for customers

C．its goods are much too expensive

D．it was inconvenient for customers to choose goods

【小題2】A clearance sale offers customers a good chance    .

A．to make a purchase on cash

B．to buy something in a very low price

C．to bargain with the sellers

D．to pick up what you like for free

【小題3】Which is the right order of events that happened in this passage?
a.Woolworth became a millionaire
b.first F. W. Woolworth store opened
c.F.W. Woolworth found work at a local dry goods store
d.The company peaked as the world’s largest department store chain
e.Woolworth died of a dental infection

A．d-b-c-e-a

B．a(chǎn)-c-b-d-e

C．c-b-a-e-d

D．a(chǎn)-d-e-c-b

【小題4】We know from this passage that      .

A．Woolworth built the tallest building in the world in 1913.

B．the number of Woolworth reached its peak before the death of F.W. Woolworth

C．offering free lunch is one of the characters of Woolworth store store chain

D．Woolworth had no chain stores in America for about 20 years

【小題5】.F.W.Woolworth’s success mainly owes to      .

A．his hard working and diligent efforts

B．his gifted talent in selling

C．his new market concept and sales model

D．his rich experience in the dry goods store

Steve Jobs-A surprising success.
Nothing in the early years of Steve Job’s life suggested that he would be so successful. Born in San Francisco, the child of two students, he was adopted and grew up close to Silicon Valley. While at company-and he and his best friend Steve Wozniak got summer jobs there.
After finishing high school in 1972, Jobs studied at an expensive liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon but he dropped pout after one after one term. He grew his hair and a beard, slept on friends’ floors, and sometimes went to a Hare Krishna temple for free meals. Like many drop-outs at that Beatles-inspired time, his ambition was to visit a guru（古魯[印度教的宗師或領(lǐng)袖]）in India, which he eventually did with a friend. When they got there, the guru had died.
At this point, Jobs has a limited education, and no obvious talents, apart from a notorious（臭名遠(yuǎn)揚）ability to talk. However, he did have a devoted friend who was an electronics genius. They were a great team. Without Jobs’ s ambition, high design standards, the ability to make deals and  great maketing skills-Wozniak might well have spent a quiet life designing hardware at HP.
【小題1】The article tells us that              .

A．Steve Jobs’s parents lived in San Francisco

B．Steve Jobs’s parents were rich

C．Steve Jobs’s parents worked at Hewlett-Packard

D．Steve Jobs didn’t know his real parents

【小題2】STEVE Jobs went to a temple because                .

A．He was a Buddhist

B．His family were Indian

C．He had very little money

D．He was inspired by the Beatles

【小題3】Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Steve Jobs was uneducated.

B．Steve Jobs went to India.

C．Steve Jobs was A GREAT SALESMAN.

D．Steve Wozniak was loyal.

【小題4】Form the article, Apple was successful because             .

A．Steve Jobs was a computer Genius

B．Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were lucky

C．Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked well together

D．Steve Wozniak liked a quiet life

Goldie’s Secret
She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We’re moving house.’; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.
I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner’s. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.
That’s why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn’t hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.
By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn’t know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.
I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I’ve got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I’ve learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.
【小題1】How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

A．Shocked.

B．Sympathetic.

C．Annoyed.

D．Upset.

【小題2】In her first few days at the author’s house, Goldie ______.

A．felt worried

B．was angry

C．a(chǎn)te a little

D．sat by the fire

【小題3】Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ______.

A．saw her puppies	B．heard familiar barking
C．wanted to leave the author	D．found her way to her old home

【小題4】 The passage is organized in order of ______.

A．time

B．effectiveness

C．importance

D．complexity

Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice．However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner．
Born in September, 1897, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies’ two daughters．Along with nine other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers．She finished her high school education at the College of Sévigné in Paris．
Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics．When World War I began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using X-ray facilities（設(shè)備）to help save the lives of wounded soldiers．Irene continued the work by developing X-ray facilities in military hospitals in France and Belgium．Her services were recognized in the form of a Military’s Medal by the French government．
In 1918, Irene became her mother’s assistant at the Curie Institute．In December 1924, Frederic Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work．They soon fell in love and were married in 1926．Their daughter Helene was born in 1927 and their son Pierre five years later．
Like her mother, Irene combined family and career．Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, in 1935．Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia because of her work with radioactivity（輻射能）．Irene Joliot-Curie died from leukemia on March 17, 1956．
【小題1】Why was Irene Curie awarded a Military Medal?

A．Because she received a degree in mathematics．

B．Because she contributed to saving the wounded．

C．Because she won the Nobel Prize with Frederic．

D．Because she worked as a helper to her mother．

【小題2】Where did Irene Curie meet her husband Frederic Joliot?

A．At the Curie Institute．	B．At the university of Paris．
C．At a military hospital．	D．At the College of Sevigne．

【小題3】When was the second child of Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot born?

A．In 1932．

B．In 1927．

C．In 1897．

D．In 1926．

【小題4】In which of the following aspects was Irene Curie different from her mother?

A．Irene worked with radioactivity．	B．Irene combined family and career．
C．Irene won the Nobel Prize once	D．Irene died from leukemia

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary : “ My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary. ”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925,which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection lf short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940.While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
【小題1】 How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?

A．5

B．6

C．7

D．8

【小題2】Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise. 
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

A．f-c-e-a-b-d	B．b-e-a-f-c-d
C．f-d-e-c-b-a	D．b-f-c-d-e-a

【小題3】We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald           .

A．had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

B．was well educated and well off before he served in the army

C．would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

D．helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

【小題4】The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about_______  .

A．Zelda’s personal life

B．Zelda’s illness and treatment

C．Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D．Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary (文學(xué)的)world

Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a-year-long and highly public battle with cancer. Jobs' death was announced by Apple in a statement late on Wednesday. The Apple.com homepage featured a black-and-white picture of him with the words "Steve Jobs, 1955-2011".
A message on the site read, "Apple has lost an imaginary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring leader."
"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple." The Silicon Valley hero who gave the world the iPod and the iPhone had resigned as CEO of the world's largest technology corporation in August, handing the position to current chief executive Tim Cook.
Two years before the iPhone that forever transformed the way people around the world access and use the Internet, Jobs talked about how a sense of his death was a major driver behind that vision.
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever got to help me make the big choices in life," Jobs said during a Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005. "Because almost everything－all others' expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure－these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
【小題1】According to the passage, which statement of Steve Jobs is RIGHT?

A．Steve Jobs was the present CEO of Apple.

B．Steve Jobs was thought to have great talent.

C．Steve Jobs had no idea about his death before.

D．Steve Jobs fought against cancer for a year secretly.

【小題2】What can we learn about iPhone from the passage?

A．People can use it to do anything they want.

B．It can teach people how to surf the Internet.

C．People can learn the spirit of Apple from it.

D．It can change the way people use the Internet.

【小題3】In Jobs's speech in Stanford, we can learn that                         .

A．to make great achievements, you must lose everything

B．people should try to achieve everything regardless of death

C．people who will be dead soon must make big choices in life

D．in the face of death, nothing is truly important except to follow your dream

【小題4】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Steve Jobs changed the world.

B．Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.

C．Who will be the next Steve Jobs?

D．Steve Jobs, the greatest American CEO.

For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, had shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy’s father told his son to go in another boat. From that time on, Santiago worked alone. The boy loved the old fisherman and  always helped him with money and food. Usually, they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about American baseball after supper, while at night, alone in his cottage, Santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of Africa, where he had gone years before. He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.
On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago set off to fish before dawn. Two of his baits(餌) were fresh tunas(金槍魚) the boy had given him, as well as sardines(沙丁魚) to cover his hooks. Then he set his lines which went straight down into deep dark water.
As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore. A bird showed him where dolphin were chasing some flying fish. This time Santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight. A small one took the hook on his line. Pulling the fish aboard, the old man thought it a good fortune.
Toward noon a marlin, a common fish in the sea, started eating the bait which was one hundred meters down. Gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line. At last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not come out of the surface. Instead, it began to pull the boat to the northwest. The old man followed it. Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks. He waited patiently for the fish to be tired .
It was cold after the sunset. When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his knife. Once the marlin leaned suddenly, pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek. By dawn his left hand was cramped(抽筋的). The fish had headed northward; there was no land in sight. Hungry, he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly.
That morning the fish jumped. Seeing it, Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had ever seen. Then the fish went down and turned toward the east. Santiago drank a little water from the bottle during the hot afternoon.
Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited. He lifted it aboard, careful. After he had rested, he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach. That night he slept. He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped. Feeding line slowly, he tried to tire the marlin. After the fish slowed its run, he washed his cut hands in sea water and ate one of the flying fish. At sunrise the marlin began to circle. Faint, he worked to bring the big fish nearer with each turn. Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon(魚叉). The fish was two feet longer than the boat. No fish like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor.
An hour later, he sighted the first shark, a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to chase after the dead marlin. The old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin bloody. He knew the smell would spread. Watching, he saw two sharks closing in. He struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water. The other he killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin. When the third appeared, he thrust(刺) it with the knife. The other sharks came at sunset. At first he tried to beat them with the tiller(舵柄) from the boat, but his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea. In the darkness, as he steered toward the harbor of Havana, he heard them hitting the boat again and again. But the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin.
All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat. He could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on. In his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep.
【小題1】The above story is adapted from __________.

A．Treasure Island	B．The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
C．The Old Man And The Sea	D．The Son Of The Sea

【小題2】Why did the man feel that he could be lucky this time?

A．Because a small tuna took the hook on his line.

B．Because he dreamed about the American lions.

C．Because he saw many flying fish were chased by the dolphins.

D．Because a lot of sharks followed his boat.

【小題3】According to the text, which statement is NOT true about Manolin?

A．The boy had mercy on Santiago.

B．The boy often shared his stories with Santiago.

C．The boy showed his great concerns to Santiago.

D．The boy was Santiago’s adopted son.

【小題4】Why does Santiago let the marlin lead his boat instead of pulling the big fish up?

A．He wanted to kill the marlin first before he pulled it up to the boat.

B．He was too tired and hungry to pull the big fish up.

C．His experience told him not to do so before the fish was tired out.

D．He wanted to use the marlin as a bait to catch the sharks.

【小題5】 Which sentence below can be used to best describe Santiago’s character?

A．“He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.”(Para 1)

B．“Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks.”(Para4)

C．“Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon.”(Para7)

D．“Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on .”(Para 9)

【小題6】 According to the text, what will be talked about in the next paragraph?

A．the man’s action to realize his dream about the lions.

B．people’s reflection when they saw the giant marlin outside.

C．people’s discussion about how they ate the giant marlin.

D．a(chǎn) funeral held by the boy and the local people after his death.