Gary Locke, 61, who comes from a Chinese background and even looks Chinese, became the new US ambassador（大使）to China.
“I can think of nobody who is more qualified than Gary Locke.” President Obama said. Locke’s new position is clearly a sign that US President is trying to improve relations with China.
When he made his first speech to the Chinese press in Beijing, Locke said,“I think ,being a Chinese-American, I have a greater understanding of the history and culture of China, but I am here as a representative of the US government.”
Before becoming ambassador to China, Locke was US secretary of commerce(商務(wù)部長(zhǎng)). This means he has plenty of trade experience, which will be useful in building economic links between the two countries.
Locke’s grandfather went to the United States over a century ago to work as a houseboy for a family in Washington State in exchange for English lessons. His father moved to the US as a teenager.
“I’m going back to the birthplace of my grandfather ,my father and my mom, and I’ll be doing so as a devoted diplomat(外交官) for America，the country where I was born and raised,” Locke said.
小題1:President Obama thinks Gary Locke ________.

A．is the right person for the new position

B．is still not too old to be an ambassador

C．is not qualified as secretary of commerce

D．can help improve US relations with Asia.

小題2:What message did Locke express in his first speech in Beijing?

A．He is proud of his parents and his grandfather.

B．He will work for both China and the United States.

C．He will represent the US government.

D．He was still not ready for his new job.

小題3:Locke will benefit from his ________ as a former secretary of commerce.

A．trade experience

B．public relations

C．work training

D．government knowledge

小題4:We learn from the text that Locke’s father ________.

A．worked as a houseboy for an American family

B．was born in China.

C．moved to the US as a baby.

D．was not able to return to China

Seventeen-year-old Rivertown teenager, John Janson, was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night for carrying out lifesaving first aid on his neighbour after a shocking knife    36  .
John was presented with his award at a ceremony which recognized the    37   of the ten people who have saved the life of others.
John had been studying in his room when he heard  38 . When he and his father rushed outside, they    39   that Anne Slade, mother of three, had been stabbed（刺）   40   with a knife by her ex-boyfriend（前男友）. The man ran from the  41  and left Ms Slade lying in her front garden    42   very heavily. Her hands had almost been cut off.
It was John’s quick    43   and knowledge of first aid that saved Ms Slade’s life. He immediately asked a number of the    44   people for bandages（繃帶）, but when nobody could put their hands on anything, his father got some tea towels（毛巾）and    45   from their house. John used these to dress the most severe    46   to Ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by applying pressure to the wounds until the    47   and ambulance arrived.
“I’m    48   of what I did but I was just doing what I had been    49  ,” John said.
John had taken part in the Young Lifesaver Scheme at his high school. When   50  John, Mr Alan Southerton, Director of the Young Lifesaver Scheme, said, “   51  is no doubt that John’s quick thinking and the first aid52   that he had learned at school saved Ms Slade’s life. It shows that a simple knowledge of the first aid can make a real   53  .”
John and the nine other lifesavers also attended a    54   reception yesterday hosted by the Prime Minister before    55   their awards last night.

小題1:	A．show B．a(chǎn)ttack C．work D．defend

小題2:	A．bravery B．life C．thinking D．progress

小題3:	A．quarrelling B．a(chǎn)rguing C．laughing D．screaming

小題4:	A．realized B．believed C．thought D．discovered

小題5:	A．repeatedly B．quickly C．frequently D．gradually

小題6:	A．home B．place C．scene D．house

小題7:	A．shaking B．struggling C．bleeding D．crying

小題8:	A．a(chǎn)ction B．a(chǎn)nswer C．experience D．request

小題9:	A．several B．nearby C．familiar D．curious

小題10:

A．water B．tape C．bandages D．scissors

小題11:

A．damages B．pains C．injuries D．a(chǎn)rms

小題12:

A．neighbours B．children C．doctor D．police

小題13:

A．proud B．fond C．sure D．tired

小題14:

A．expected B．taught C．encouraged D．educated

小題15:

A．thanking B．recognizing C．a(chǎn)dmiring D．congratulating

小題16:

A．There B．It C．He D．She

小題17:

A．skills B．instructions C．key D．history

小題18:

A．discovery B．harm C．difference D．choice

小題19:

A．recent B．secret C．private D．special

小題20:

A．giving B．offering C．a(chǎn)nnouncing D．receiving

On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to  36  in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she  37  a big bald（禿頂?shù)模﹎an running through the parking lot. Before she came to  38  what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window. “Get out!”
Neilson  39 .
Pulling open her door, the man seized her  40  the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed,  41 her purse and the keys.
Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a  42  , heard the screams and began running.
When they  43  Neilson’s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver’s seat and was  44 searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker  45  back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no  46  for the two athletic men.
Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to  47  the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes —— used to tie up newspapers.
With his arms  48  tightly behind him, the prisoner looked up and said   49  , “I hope you guys feel good about yourselves – you just caught one of the most wanted men.” They 50  him and waited for the police.
Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the  51 carjacker（劫車(chē)者） and suspected murderer, whose  52 —but with a full head of hair – had been recently printed in their own newspaper.
Neilson considers herself lucky  53  she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a 54  ending if those good people had not come to her aid. “Unfortunately,” she says, “many people would   55  have done what they did, and that is the real truth.”

小題1:	A．bring B．gather C．let D．send

小題2:	A．recognized B．noticed C．watched D．met

小題3:	A．imagine B．understand C．realize D．conclude

小題4:	A．refused B．struggled C．escaped D．obeyed

小題5:	A．by B．a(chǎn)round C．with D．on

小題6:	A．burying B．forgetting C．grabbing D．offering

小題7:	A．trip B．visit C．holiday D．break

小題8:	A．started B．reached C．entered D．stopped

小題9:	A．carefully B．patiently C．disappointedly D．madly

小題10:

A．fought B．turned C．jumped D．shouted

小題11:

A．target B．match C．equal D．companion

小題12:

A．phone B．remind C．invite D．beg

小題13:

A．rolled B．folded C．tied D．bent

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)ngrily B．kindly C．warmly D．coldly

小題15:A. caught          B. ignored             C. comforted         D thanked.

小題16:

A．ordinary B．outstanding C．honest D．professional

小題17:

A．character B．background C．picture D．story

小題18:

A．though B．but C．a(chǎn)nd D．when

小題19:

A．ridiculous B．different C．strange D．similar

小題20:

A．sometimes B．forever C．often D．never

Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to 36 my father, who’d moved there to find  37  work when I was three years old. He had a job at a restaurant and only visited us  38  every couple of years.
Before I moved, I knew that people in the US spoke English. But honestly, I didn’t stop to analyze the  39  when I was  40  to leave. Just like I assumed I could easily become a doctor or a lawyer. I assumed that I had the skills to learn English in a few weeks. 
When I  41  in the US and started 8^th grade at Ditmas Middle School in Brooklyn, everyone was speaking a(n)  42  language I couldn’t understand. I  43  that life had subtitles, like in foreign movies. School was such a serious place here. Sometimes I felt like I was in a geek（呆子） class. The teachers were always  44  my moves so I couldn’t even throw a paper ball at a classmate’s head. And the worst thing was having to read  45
46  after almost seven months of complaining about everything, I realized that complaining didn’t change things.  47  just made my life worse. If I was going to  48   in this new concrete jungle, I had to  49  . I began to learn English by reading newspapers on my own  50  school. After about four months, I started enjoying reading the crime and sports stories. After six months of studying, my teachers  51  my improvement and moved me into a more  52  English class. I could go to the store and ask for things that I wanted to buy without  53  frustration. For the first time I felt like I was living on earth again  54  .I didn’t hear foreign talk. I  55  understand people.

小題1:	A．find B．join C．see D．help

小題2:	A．good-looking B．well-dressed C．better-paying D．highly-thought

小題3:	A．once B．other C．each D．only

小題4:	A．case B．condition C．situation D．state

小題5:	A．packing B．trying C．managing D．a(chǎn)rranging

小題6:	A．reached B．entered C．got D．a(chǎn)rrived

小題7:	A．strange B．unusual C．standard D．foreign

小題8:	A．hoped B．wished C．expected D．demanded

小題9:	A．staring B．looking C．checking D．watching

小題10:

A．texts B．newspapers C．English D．poems

小題11:

A．Although B．Even if C．But D．Since

小題12:

A．It B．They C．I D．Things

小題13:

A．live B．study C．survive D．continue

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)dapt B．a(chǎn)dopt C．a(chǎn)dore D．a(chǎn)dmire

小題15:

A．for B．in C．a(chǎn)fter D．a(chǎn)t

小題16:

A．made B．noticed C．concerned D．remember

小題17:

A．modern B．a(chǎn)dvanced C．difficult D．convenient

小題18:

A．even B．ever C．some D．a(chǎn)ny

小題19:

A．if B．though C．ever D．because

小題20:

A．could B．should C．would D．might

Arthur Miller (1915—2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many others by the “Great American Dream”. However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early 1930s.
Miller's most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence on money and social status as indicators of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with this system. Willy is “burnt out” and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can't do the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully aware of this, and at a loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
小題1:Why did Arthur Miller's father move to the USA?

A．He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.

B．He was attracted by the “Great American Dream.”

C．He hoped to make his son a dramatist.

D．His family business failed

小題2:The play Death of a Salesman________.

A．exposes the cruelty of the American business world

B．discusses the ways to get promoted in a company

C．talks about the business career of Arthur Miller

D．focuses on the skills in doing business

小題3:What can we learn about Willy Loman?

A．He treats his employer badly.

B．He runs the Wagner Company.

C．He is a victim of the American system.

D．He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.

小題4:After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman________.

A．a(chǎn)chieved huge success

B．won the first Tony Award

C．was warmly welcomed by salesmen

D．was severely attacked by dramatists

小題5:What is the text mainly about?

A．Arthur Miller and his family.

B．The awards Arthur Miller won.

C．The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.

D．Arthur Miller and his best known play.

We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over(被迫停車(chē)). A middle-aged policeman came up to the ear and was really being troublesome at first. He said, "You were speeding. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Our guitarist, Tim, told him that we were on our way to Wisconsin to play a show. Then his way towards us totally changed. He asked, "Oh, so you boys are in a band?" We told him that we were. He then asked all the usual band questions about the type of music we played, and how long we had been at it.
Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Tim, you want to get out of this ticket, don't you?" Tim said, "Yes. " So the officer asked him to step out of the car. The rest of us, inside the car, didn' t know what to think as we watched the policeman talk to Tim. Then the policeman put Tim in the back of the police car and threw the car into reverse(倒車(chē)), stopping a few feet in back of our car.
Now we suddenly felt frightened. We didn't know if we were all going to prison. Suddenly, the policeman's voice came over in a loudspeaker. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we have Tim here singing on Route 90." Later we knew, the policeman had told Tim that if he sang one of our songs over the loudspeaker in the police car, we would get out of the ticket. Seconds later, Tim started screaming into the receiver. The policeman enjoyed the performance, and sent us on our way without a ticket.
小題1:Why did the policeman stop the boys?

A．Because they drove too fast.

B．Because they were late for their show.

C．Because they didn't see the policeman.

D．Because they had to answer the band questions.

小題2:The policeman became friendly to the boys when he knew they ______.

A．had long been at the band

B．played the music he loved

C．were driving for a show

D．promised him a performance

小題3:The underlined word "ticket" in paragraph 2 means "a piece of paper that ______".

A．a(chǎn)llows you to enter a cinema

B．shows the price or size in a shop

C．shows that you have paid to travel on a bus

D．orders you to pay money because you have done something wrong

小題4:How did the boys probably feel when they went on their way again?

A．Happy.

B．Calm.

C．Angry.

D．Frightened.

When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep   1 on me, and since then, for the past 33 years，I have  2 in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，  3 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 4 ，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be   5  soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big 6 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death，  7 only what is truly important.
About a year ago I was  8 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs  9 order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I  10 with that diagnosis all day．  11 ，at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is  12 with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
 13 wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all  14 ．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of   15 ．It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to   16  for the new．Right now the new is you．But someday not too  17  from now，you will gradually become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true.
Your time is  18 ，so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be  19 by dogma (教條) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner   20 ．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart.

小題1:	A．joke B．curse C．decision D．impression

小題2:	A．looked B．seen C．found D．1ost

小題3:	A．might B．should C．would D．could

小題4:	A．hurry B．1ine C．row D．moment

小題5:	A．successful B．dead C．rich D．frustrated

小題6:	A．choices B．fortune C．impressions D．a(chǎn)pologies

小題7:	A．proving B．confirming C．leaving D．telling

小題8:	A．treated B．cured C．diagnosed D．round

小題9:	A．on B．for C．a(chǎn)t D．in

小題10:

A．met B．1ived C．did D．got

小題11:

A．But B．However C．Therefore D．So

小題12:

A．incurable B．fatal C．curable D．changeable

小題13:

A．No one B．Someone C．Anyone D．Everyone

小題14:

A．want B．a(chǎn)void C．escape D．share

小題15:

A．destination B．science C．1ife D．disease

小題16:

A．make up B．make way C．make our D．make for

小題17:

A．distant B．long C．short D．a(chǎn)way

小題18:

A．enough B．rare C．limited D．1ost

小題19:

A．wasted B．cheated C．excited D．trapped

小題20:

A．love B．voice C．direction D．confusion

"Everything happens for the best, "my mother said whenever I faced disappointment, "If you 36 on, something good will happen some day."
Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college. I had   37  myself for a sports announcer. So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was 38  every time. In one station, a kind lady told me that 39  stations wouldn't employ a person without   40 since I had just graduated. "Go out in the town and find a small station that might give you a chance, "she said.
I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had  41  in the school football team. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to manage its sports department. The job sounded just 42   for me but I wasn't hired.
My disappointment had 43  as if by design. "Everything happens for the best," Mum  44  me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already hired an announcer.  45 I left his office, I asked aloud,"  46 can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?" Suddenly, I heard the director  47  . "Do you know anything about football? " Then he asked me to 48  an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was 49  and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the   50  Saturday.

小題1:	A．put B．take C．move D．carry

小題2:	A．devoted B．designed C．found D．enjoyed

小題3:	A．invited B．promised C．refused D．a(chǎn)ccepted

小題4:	A．large B．a(chǎn)ll C．no D．small

小題5:	A．experience B．examination C．a(chǎn)greement D．college

小題6:	A．played B．joined C．taken D．fought

小題7:	A．possible B．successful C．right D．important

小題8:	A．shown B．disappeared C．resulted D．turned

小題9:	A．woke B．a(chǎn)dvised C．demanded D．reminded

小題10:

A．While B．After C．Before D．So

小題11:

A．What B．How C．Whenever D．Wherever

小題12:

A．calling B．a(chǎn)nswering C．broadcasting D．a(chǎn)nnouncing

小題13:

A．make B．a(chǎn)ct C．broadcast D．play

小題14:

A．moved B．sorry C．thankful D．satisfied

小題15:

A．future B．coming C．last D．later

“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.
I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.
I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.
She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.
小題1:When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.

A．a(chǎn)t home

B．sleeping

C．sitting in bed

D．both A and B

小題2:The author saved the baby _____.

A．because he was very brave.

B．because he liked the baby very much.

C．but he just happened to save it.

D．because it was the Mayor’s baby.

小題3:He ran in the wrong direction because he _______.

A．was a stranger there	B．could see nothing
C．was not completely awake	D．Both A and C

小題4:He put the bundle over his face and ran in order to ______.

A．save the baby	B．call for help
C．protect his face	D．run quickly

小題5:Form which group of words, we can learn the fire took place out of people’s surprise?

A．old and wooden house, a bundle

B．crashed to, fell down

C．terrible, half-awake

D．bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat

I was working on my usual Sunday afternoon shift at the bakery. The flow of   36  rushed to finish weekend shopping in order to return home   37  to prepare supper or watch the football game. I   38  on my job of stamping hundreds of bags for the coming holiday  weekend   39  I heard a weak voice, “Excuse me, miss.” I   40   up to see an elderly man standing before me. He  41   asked if he could have a tart (果陷餅). I went to fetch the tart and placed it in a box.
“Three dollars, please.” I told him. The man looked   42  and began shaking his head. This is one of the most awkward   43  , because you want to give the dessert away, but cannot. He apologized, saying he would not   44    more than expected on a tart.
  45___ I felt upset, I waited on (照顧) the customer behind him, a woman who asked for various breads and desserts   46  a dinner party she was hosting. After finishing her_ 47  , she asked if I would   48  adding a tart to her bill and placing it in a  49  box. My curiosity grew as I handed it to her. She paid, _ 50  me and walked away.
I   51  to stamping bags, but I couldn’t concentrate. I could not stop thinking about the little old man who could not, or _ 52   not, spend three dollars on a dessert. Just then, I saw the woman giving the man   53 _ much-desired tart. His face   54  , brilliant and appreciative.        ___55   her kindness, he reached into his pocket and gave her the only thing he had: a piece of candy.

小題1:	A．workers B．women C．housewives D．customers

小題2:	A．whether B．either C．a(chǎn)s D．while

小題3:	A．made B．depended C．focused D．put

小題4:	A．then B．that C．which D．when

小題5:	A．came B．got C．looked D．covered

小題6:	A．politely B．loudly C．proudly D．rudely

小題7:	A．a(chǎn)ngry B．disappointed C．happy D．poor

小題8:	A．moments B．persons C．manners D．ways

小題9:	A．pay B．use C．spend D．waste

小題10:

A．Because B．Since C．Before D．Although

小題11:

A．for B．in C．from D．to

小題12:

A．question B．order C．shopping D．need

小題13:

A．mind B．like C．try D．consider

小題14:

A．similar B．usual C．divided D．separate

小題15:

A．greeted B．excused C．thanked D．left

小題16:

A．ran B．turned C．returned D．walked

小題17:

A．dared B．would C．should D．must

小題18:

A．her B．his C．my D．their

小題19:

A．showed up B．turned up C．lit up D．lifted up

小題20:A．In honor of BIn addition to  C．In place of      D. In return for