Too many people want others to be their friends, but they don’t give friendship back. That is why some friendships don’t last very long. To have a friend, you must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you. Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules: be honest; be generous (寬宏大量的)；be understanding.
Honesty is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust one another. If you don’t tell the truth, people usually find out. If a friend finds out that you haven’t been honest, you may lose your friend’s trust. Good friends always count on one another to speak and act honestly.
Generosity means sharing and sharing makes a friendship grow. You don’t have to give your lunch money or your clothes, or enjoy, like your hobbies and your interests. Naturally you will want to share your ideas and feelings. These can be very valuable to a friend. They tell your friend what is important to you. By sharing them you help your friend know you better.
Sooner or later everyone needs understanding and help with a problem. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve . Turning to a friend can be a first step in solving the problem. So to be a friend you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend’s place so you can understand the problem better.
No two friendships are ever exactly alike (相同). But all true friendships have three things in common. If you plan to keep your friendships, you must practice honesty, generosity and understanding.
【小題1】Some friendships don’t last very long because       .

A．there are too many people who want to make friends.

B．they don’t know friendship is something serious

C．they receive others’ friendships but never give others friendships

D．they always give other people friendships

【小題2】According to the passage , honesty is          .

A．a(chǎn)s important as money	B．more important than anything else
C．something countable	D．the base of a friendship

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

A．A friend who gives you his lunch money is a true friend.

B．Always tell your friend the truth.

C．Discussing your problems with your friend often helps to solve the problem.

D．Sharing your mind with your friend is of great value.

【小題4】The best title of this passage is        .

A．A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed	B．Honesty Is the Best Habit
C．How to Be a Friend	D．Three Important Points in Life

Many of Chinese students who have learnt English for more than ten years are still unable to speak English fluently when they meet a foreigner. They seem to have mastered the basic language structure, but a conversation in English will make them feel uneasy. They are afraid that other people might find out their mistakes.
It is not uncommon that many students, who are bad speakers of English, can write English perfectly. This proves that they are not unable to organize their idea in English. The center of the problem is that they don’t have enough practices and confidence.
Why should you be afraid? Do you fear those foreigners to whom you are speaking? Don’t be shy. They will not laugh at you just for a little mistake you make. The best to get rid of this trouble is to learn to speak by speaking more. I am sure that more practice will help you to succeed.
【小題1】What’s the best topic for the passage?

A．How to speak to foreigners

B．How to write English well

C．How to organize the idea in English

D．Practice speaking English

【小題2】So many Chinese students dare not speak to foreigners because_________.

A．they are afraid they can’t understand the foreigners

B．they worry about making mistakes in their speaking

C．they are afraid their English is too poor

D．they don’t like speaking to foreigners

【小題3】 In the last paragraph, the expression “get rid of” means _________.

A．do with

B．be free of

C．be afraid of

D．get into

School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, he can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to learn some facts or a formula by heart. It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula(公式) in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientist, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so successful and invented so many things for men. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
【小題1】According to the passage, a good teacher should be one who is to_________.

A．help his students to gain a good memory.

B．train his students’ ability to learn

C．teach his students everything he knows

D．have his students studying long hours

【小題2】 If a student want to learn better, the most important thing for him to do is_______.

A．to learn all the useful facts and formula by heart

B．to do everything as his teacher have said in class

C．to absorb (吸收) as much knowledge from his teacher as possible

D．to think more while he is studying

【小題3】The main reason for the success of the great scientists is that________.

A．the teachers who had taught them were all experienced.

B．they used to work and study without a moment’s rest.

C．they had received more schooling than other people

D．they know how to study and worked hard

【小題4】What’s the good advice the writer gives us?

A．We can learn better without teachers

B．We should do more asking and thinking while studying

C．We should pay enough attention to classroom

D．Book knowledge is little use

In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others. However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. In this article, we will get to know three most successful people in U.S. who never finished their college education. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.
1. Bill Gates
Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Bill Gates “Harvard’s most successful dropout,” while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people.Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
2. Steve Jobs
The iPad, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Because his family couldn’t afford his college education, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months. Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made great influences on development of modern technique and culture. However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless.
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
As the America’s most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the “father of modernism." Wright’ s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
【小題1】 What does“dropouts”in Paragraph One mean?

A．Hardworking students.	B．Very successful students.
C．Students failing to finish their school education.	D．Students from poor families.

【小題2】Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?

A．People graduating from famous universities are more likely to get jobs.

B．Many successful people had the experience of giving up their school education.

C．If one has a lot of gold, he will become very rich one day.

D．We should stop our college education to follow in those successful people’s steps.

【小題3】According to the writer, Bill Gates _________.

A．is richer than any other man in the world

B．is well-known in Harvard University

C．finally finished his study at Harvard and got a doctorate degree

D．is the only founder of Microsoft

【小題4】Which of the following statements can’t be learned from the last two paragraphs?

A．The reason for Jobs’ dropping his college education is that his parents couldn’t pay for it.

B．Jobs thought his six-month college education gave him no help.

C．Wright’s teacher was a very famous artist.

D．Wright is the designer of New York City’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

【小題5】 What does the author want to tell us in this passage?

A．Successful people often have unordinary life experience.

B．College education is not so important to one’s success.

C．People from poor families are more likely to give up their college education.

D．Even without college education, one can still achieve success with one’s hard work.

Advertising is a highly developed twentieth-century industry. The development of radio, television, cinema, magazines and newspapers has gone hand in hand with the development of advertising. Why is advertising so popular? Is it a waste of money? It has been proved again and again that repeated advertising increases product sales. Since it increases production, the price can be reduced. Therefore advertising, instead of making a product more expensive, makes it cheaper.
Advertising is now a scientific business. Once managers would say jokingly, " I know that half of what I spend on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half." Now, all parts of an advertising program are properly measured and researched.
What makes a good advertisement? There have been major changes in advertising in the past sixty years. People read advertisements partly for information and partly for pleasure. Today's advertisements often start with a question, or a puzzle, with the purpose of attracting the reader's attention. Of course, most advertisements contain information. But this is usually contained in a text that is interesting and often funny. Humor is very important. Sometimes advertisements tell a story, or the story may be continued over a number of advertisements. However, there is a danger in this. It is possible that the reader or viewer will remember the advertisement but not the name of the product.
【小題1】The purpose of advertising is ____.

A．to increase product sales

B．to make a product much better

C．to spend more money

D．to reduce the production

【小題2】Which of the following can be used in place of the underlined phrase "hand in hand" ?

A．Here and there.	B．Again and again.
C．As usual.	D．At the same time.

【小題3】 What is meant by what managers said in the second paragraph?

A．A11 the money on advertising was wasted.

B．Not all the advertisements were well designed.

C．A11 the managers knew about advertising then.

D．Managers spent no money on advertising.

【小題4】What does the writer think of advertising?

A．Useless.

B．Unnecessary.

C．Important.

D．Wasteful.

Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment, and very likely to have our views challenged by other members of society.
Face to face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of contemporary society. Two things, above others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advanced imprinting, telecommunications photography, radio and television. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission (傳輸) and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself is often almost eclipsed( 侵蝕) by international news.
No longer is the possession of information confined to(只限于) a privileged minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. For years ago people used to flock to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a programme that is being channeled into millions of homes.
Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modem communication industry influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.
Although a great deal of the material communicated by the mass media is very valuable to the individual and to the society of which he is part, the vast modem network of communications is open to abuse(濫用). However, the mass media are with us for better, for worse, and there is no turning back.
【小題1】In the first paragraph the writer emphasizes the       of face-to-face contact in social setting.

A．nature

B．limitation

C．creativity

D．usefulness

【小題2】It is implied in the passage that         .

A．local news used to be the only source of information

B．local news still takes a significant place

C．national news is becoming more popular

D．international news is the fastest transmitted news

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

A．Possessing information used to be a privilege.

B．Public libraries have replaced the private completely.

C．Communication means more than transmission.

D．Information influences ways of life and thinking.

【小題4】From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer is       .

A．indifferent to the harmful influence of the mass media

B．happy about the flexible changes in the mass media

C．pessimistic about the future of the mass media

D．concerned about the wrong use of the mass media

It is pretty much a one-way street. While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction. Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job. For some industrial scientists, however, the attractions of academia (學(xué)術(shù)界) are more important than any financial considerations.
　　Helen Lee took a 70% cut in salary when she moved from a senior post in Abbott Laboratories to a medical department at the University of Cambridge. Her main reason for returning to academia in the middle of her career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.
　　The effect of a salary cut is probably less serious for a scientist in the early stages of a career. Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制藥的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral(博士后的) researcher. He took a 30% salary cut but felt it worthwhile for the greater intellectual opportunities.
　　Higher up the ladder, where a pay cut is usually more significant, the demand for scientists with a wealth of experience in industry is forcing universities to make the transition (轉(zhuǎn)換) to academia more attractive, according to Lee. Industrial scientists tend to receive training that academics do not, such as how to manage budgets and negotiate contracts. They are also well placed to bring something extra to their teaching that will help students get a job when they graduate, says Lee, perhaps experience in manufacturing practice or product development. “Only a small number of undergraduates will continue in an academic career. So someone leaving university who already has the skills needed to work in an industrial lab has far more potential in the job market than someone who has spent all their time on a narrow research project.”
【小題1】By “a one-way street” (Line 1, Para. 1), the author means ______.

A．university researchers know little about the commercial world

B．there is little exchange between industry and academia

C．few industrial scientists would quit to work in a university

D．few university professors are willing to do industrial research

【小題2】The underlined word “deterrent” (Line 3, Para. 1) most probably refers to something that ______.

A．keeps someone from taking action

B．encourages someone to succeed

C．a(chǎn)ttracts people’s attention

D．brings someone a financial burden

【小題3】What was Helen Lee’s major consideration when she changed her job in the middle of her career?

A．Flexible working hours.	B．Her research interests.
C．Peaceful life on campus.	D．Her fame in academia.

【小題4】What contribution can industrial scientists make when they come to teach in a university?

A．Increase its graduates’ competitiveness in the job market.

B．Develop its students’ potential in research.

C．Help to get financial support from industry.

D．Get more students interested in the field of industry.

It doesn’t matter if you have one friend or 20, because there are only a few people in this world that can make you truly happy. For me, my family and my three best girlfriends mean everything to me.
Some days I didn’t want to go to school because I felt so disappointed in myself but I don’t regret a thing. It makes you stronger as a person, and if you are able to mend your friendships like I have done, then you can do anything.
My mom always told me, “Stephanie, remember that a friend is a gift that you give to yourself. A friend will always be there for the good and the bad. A true friend will never make fun of you. If a friend is a piece of work, then he or she has never been a friend at all. A friend is the biggest gift to you.”
Everyone is going to make mistakes but please don’t push them away, especially if it’s someone you really care about. I know when I make mistake I beat myself up about it. I just wish someone would have reached out a hand to help me back up on my feet like my best friend did. If someone is new or doesn’t have a friend, please reach out and befriend them because that small action could mean the world to them. Now that I’m older, I understand what my mom has been trying to tell me, and now I know that the friends that I choose will also be the kinds of friends that I would want to be surrounded by forever.
【小題1】The writer was unwilling to go to school because ______.

A．she was disappointed in herself

B．she regretted something he had done

C．she was busy trying to fix a friendship

D．she went to by a gift for her mother

【小題2】 According to passage, a true friend should be a person that ______.

A．often gives you gifts

B．makes you happy

C．does both good and bad things to you

D．never makes fun of you

【小題3】 It can be inferred(推測) from the passage that the writer ______.

A．doesn’t have many friends

B．doesn’t think that friends will make her truly happy

C．understands what a friend means to her

D．has nothing except her family and three girlfriends

【小題4】According to the passage, which is WRONG?

A．Making friends with some lonely people will bring them warmth

B．Your friend should not make mistakes in face of you.

C．Mother told me what friend is.

D．You should care about your friend.

When I was at university,  I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library. Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. Beside each question we had to write “True” or “False”. While I was studying in my room the night before the test, Fred was watching television. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. In that way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.” The next day, Fred came cheerfully into the examination room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left half an hour before the rest of us. The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor.
“Oh good,” he said, “Have you got the results of the test?”
The professor looked at him and smiled.
“Ah, it’s you, Baines, just a minute.”
Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.
“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”
【小題1】 Fred often went to the Students’ Union where he ________ .

A．worked extra hours	B．enjoyed himself in the bar
C．borrowed books	D．a(chǎn)ttended a few lectures

【小題2】This time Fred expected to get ________ .

A．a(chǎn)n excellent mark

B．a(chǎn) low mark

C．his usual mark

D．the pass mark

【小題3】The chemistry professor ________ .

A．didn’t mark the test papers correctly

B．tossed a coin when he marked test papers

C．knew about Fred’s method

D．thought Fred’s method was good

【小題4】According to the text, we can know working hard is ________ .

A．unnecessary

B．valuable

C．useless

D．a(chǎn) waste

You can find language pollution whenever you open a newspaper or turn on your TV set, listen to a popular song at various advertisements. Language pollution exists almost everywhere and can be seen in the following places;
1. Chinese character are written in the complex(復(fù)雜的)form. Although simplified(簡單的) Chinese characters were accepted for use many years ago, it seems that more and more people like Chinese characters written in the complex form.
2. Many goods are produced in China but carry foreign names, which sound strange and have no meaning at all.
3. Words and expressions being used have a bad meaning. “Ba”(霸), which means bully(巨大的)in Chinese, is one example. Now there are a lot of goods, restaurants, even factories or firms, with “Ba” in their names.
4. There are too many incorrect grammatical expressions. Some films have strange names and incorrect grammatical structures(結(jié)構(gòu)). “Ai ni mei shang liang”, which means “I love you without consulting”, is grammatically incorrect and this kind of expression is now becoming popular.
Some language experts point out that language pollution must be done away with, which is an idea shared by many others and myself.
【小題1】.The writer of the passage suggests that______.

A．something be done to make our language pure

B．the Chinese language not have the word “Ba”

C．everything have a good name and a good meaning

D．everybody try their best to stop language pollution

【小題2】. What the writer wants to say is that_______.

A．great difference exists between the Chinese characters written in the complex form and simplified form

B．language used by our newspapers, TV programs, pop songs and advertisements are getting polluted

C．many people agree with the experts on language pollution in China

D．some film writers haven’t studied Chinese grammar

【小題3】.The underlined expression “done away with” in the last paragraph means______.

A．got away

B．recycled

C．cleaned

D．ended

【小題4】. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．More Attention to Grammar.	B．Experts’ Good Advice.
C．Films with Strange Names.	D．Pollution of our Language.