A．Nokia­6010

Price: $24.99　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

Digital camera: No　2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 330 minutes

Standby time: Up to 240 hours　Weight: 5.08 ounces

Dimensions: 4.68″×1.97″×0.90″

Games: Backgammon, Bowling, Air glide, and Sky diver plus downloadable Java games

B．Motorola­C650 (Camera phone)

Price: $99.99　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

Digital camera: Yes　2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 210 minutes

Standby time: Up to 215 hours　Weight: 3.10 ounces

Games: Downloadable games

C．Samsung­V1660 on Sprint PCS

Price: Free　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 204 minutes

Standby time: Up to 168 hours 　Weight: 3.54 ounces

Memory locations: 200 entry phonebook

D．Motorola­SLVR­L7

Price: $206.4　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

Digital camera: Yes　2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 450 minutes

Standby time: Up to 345 hours　Weight: 3.39 ounces

Dimensions: 4.45″×1.93″×0.45″

Games: Enjoy preloaded J2ME games or downloadable games

E．Nokia­8010

Price: $124.99　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

Digital camera: No　2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 330 minutes

Standby time: Up to 240 hours　Weight: 4.08 ounces

Dimensions: 3.68″×1.27″×0.70″

Games: Downloadable games

F．Kyocera­SE47 slider on version wireless

Price: $149.99　Color display: Yes

Wireless Internet ready: Yes

Digital camera: No　2­way text messaging: Yes

Talk time: Up to 210 minutes

Standby time: Up to 100 hours　Weight: 3.39 ounces

Memory locations: 200 entry phonebook

以下是五個人的信息介紹。請將這五個人與他們需要的最佳款式的手機(jī)匹配起來。

1.Susan is at a middle school.Her parents want to buy her a cheaper cell phone without games installed.

2.Mike intends to buy a phone with longer talk time and standby time and it can not be expensive.

3.Jane is at college.She would like to buy a phone which can slide the face up to make a call, and slide it down when you're done and it has to be light.

4.George would like to have a cheaper phone with digital camera.

5.Tom only buys Nokia.He lost one and he wants to buy another which is smaller.

A Tchaikovsky concerto（協(xié)奏曲）is what made Romel Joseph fall in love with the violin.

He learned how to play in Haiti, where he was born, but a Fulbright scholarship brought him to the United States, and he finally earned a master’s degree, reports CBS News reporter Katie Couric. Music had changed his life. He wanted to do the same for the children of Haiti.

Joseph built a school in Port-au-Prince nearly 20 years ago. He was on the third floor when suddenly “It was like boom boom boom and everything just opened,” Joseph said. “And the next thing I knew I was on the ground.”

Blind since birth, Joseph tried to feel his way out, but was pinned（夾）beneath heavy concrete（混凝土）. He remained trapped for 18 hours. He prays that his new wife, seven months pregnant（懷孕的）, will be found.

He is now being treated at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for two injured legs and an arm.

Joseph wonders if he’ll ever play the violin again. He can feel sensation（知覺）in his fingertips. He said, “If you were to give me a violin and if I didn’t have to fold the fingers, I would be able to play.”

Joseph’s daughter Victoria spent three terrifying days unsure of her father’s fate. For her, having him home is the sweetest music.

“Can you imagine your dad not being able to play the violin?” Couric asked.

“No, I can’t,” Victoria Joseph said. “But I will love him all the same if he can’t.”

Romel doesn’t know how many of his 300 students died in the quake. As he waits for news about his wife, Romel Joseph is already planning a return to Haiti to rebuild the school and continue teaching there.

“We can save two children, 20, 200, 300, 500 through education and music, and these children will make a difference,” Romel Joseph said.

54．Romel began to like music ________.

A. because he was blind since birth

B. after he had listened to a famous piece of music

C. when he got a scholarship to study in America

D. since he was born in Haiti

55．From what Romel said in Paragraph 6, we can infer that he was ________.

A. upset        B. fearful          C. excited          D. optimistic

56．To Victoria, the best thing is ________.

A. to see her father recover from the injury quickly

B. to listen to her father playing the sweetest music

C. to play the violin as well as her father

D. to be sure that her father could play the violin

57．Why does Romel want to go back to Haiti?

A. To save his students from the earthquake.

B. To change the life of children by teaching music.

C. To find out how seriously his school was damaged.

D. To look for his wife who is pregnant.

58．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A. Music education: keep your creativity alive

B. A great blind musician and his students

C. Haiti earthquake: a story of a music teacher

D. How did some Haiti earthquake victims survive

D
Last week Jay McCarroll and The HSUS(The Humane Society of the United States)  made a bold fur-free statement on the runway, marking a new chapter for the fashion industry and animal protection. The encouraging response to McCarroll’s show confirmed that change is happening in fashion.
McCarroll has good reasons for rejecting fur. Each year, tens of millions of animals, including dogs and cats, needlessly suffer and die to fuel the fur industry. But what did Jay McCarroll use in place of fur? “I have patchwork pieces that contain all sorts of combinations of fabrics. The rest is cotton, nylon, polyester . . . you name it. I even have some stuff made out of bamboo/cotton blend. Anything but fur and leather, ”he told Fashion Wire Daily.
“So many people want to protect animals and live their lives without causing unnecessary cruelty. More than two thirds of Americans have pets, and we share a bond with animals every day. Saying no to fur can help millions of animals, and we want to show our respect to leading designers like Jay who embrace compassion as the fashion, ”said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of The HSUS. “It is great to see leaders in the fashion industry recognizing that the animals need their fur more than we do.”
63．Which of the following is true about Jay McCarroll?
A. He is a famous fashion designer.
B. He is the executive vice president of the HSUS.
C. He is an editor of Fashion Wire Daily.
D. He is the head of all animal protection organization.
64．What does “a new chapter” in line two, paragraph one mean?
A. A new unit of a book.                                                 B. The beginning of a new trend.
C. The latest issue of a magazine.                       D. A newly established organization.
65．Which of the following is NOT recommended for clothing by Jay McCarroll?
A. Polyester.                       B. Bamboo.                         C. Leather.                 D. Patchwork pieces.
66．What do we learn from this passage?
A. Human beings depend emotionally on animals.
B. Fashion can go hand in hand with compassion for life.
C. Fur is more effective than bamboo／cotton blend for clothing.
D. Fur is more expensive than other materials for fashion designers.

D

At the railway stations all across Britain next week, groups of students will gather with their backpacks to wait for the trains that will carry them home for Christmas. This is a large movement of human beings as before, but with more contradictory traffic flows, so that trains filled with the young pass each other travelling in every direction.

At first, I went home every weekend with my washing, but then those visits became less regular. How did I let my parents know I was coming? They had no phone. Perhaps I wrote to them (“Expect me with dirty shirts this Friday afternoon”), but more likely I didn’t let them know, and just turned up or didn’t turn up, not understanding that my parents’ hopes of seeing me were a greater disappointment of my carelessness than a spoiled tea.

And in all this I suspect I was typical (有代表性的), at least of young men. As for our fathers and mothers, none of them talked of “empty-nest syndrome (綜合癥)”, even though its possible effect that the main human duty is to protect and feed the young would have suited their generation better than ours. Then, the feeling of loss went without a name. Today, it’s a condition with remedies, which will make parents feel more enjoyable in their life, The Mayo Clinic, for example, suggests you try to maintain regular contact with your children through “visits, phone calls, emails, texts or video chats”. If you feel unhappy, lean on (depend on … for support) loved ones or your mental health providers. Above all, stay positive: “Thinking about the extra time and energy that you might have to devote to your marriage or personal interests after your last child leaves home, it might help you adapt to this major life change.”

What can’t be denied, however, is that children often leave home. In modern societies, this is what they do. Christmas is the very time they can be depended on to return. For the non-religious, that may be this season’s true comfort and significance.

1.The main reason for the busy traffic across Britain next week is that _______.

A．young students will travel home for Christmas.

B．young people will travel in every direction.

C．it is a large movement of human beings

D．the traffic flows will be more contradictory

2.From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer _______.

A．went home every week to wash dirty clothes

B．understood his parents’ desire of seeing him

C．didn’t understand his parents’ feelings

D．went home to see his parents regularly

3.The underlined word “remedies” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.

A．reasons           B．excuses           C．habits            D．solutions

4.From the last paragraph we know that _______.

A．in modern society, children should leave home

B．Christmas is likely a time for family reunion

C．the significance of Christmas is celebration

D．Christmas is not a comfort for the non-religious

5.From the passage we can infer that by writing the article the writer is to _______.

A．persuade the young to show concern for their parents

B．a(chǎn)sk the young to go home regularly

C．make the young understand their parents’ interest

D．enable the young to be more independent

D

    Last week Jay McCarroll and The HSUS(The Humane Society of the United States)  made a bold fur-free statement on the runway, marking a new chapter for the fashion industry and animal protection. The encouraging response to McCarroll’s show confirmed that change is happening in fashion.

    McCarroll has good reasons for rejecting fur. Each year, tens of millions of animals, including dogs and cats, needlessly suffer and die to fuel the fur industry. But what did Jay McCarroll use in place of fur? “I have patchwork pieces that contain all sorts of combinations of fabrics. The rest is cotton, nylon, polyester . . . you name it. I even have some stuff made out of bamboo/cotton blend. Anything but fur and leather, ”he told Fashion Wire Daily.

    “So many people want to protect animals and live their lives without causing unnecessary cruelty. More than two thirds of Americans have pets, and we share a bond with animals every day. Saying no to fur can help millions of animals, and we want to show our respect to leading designers like Jay who embrace compassion as the fashion, ”said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of The HSUS. “It is great to see leaders in the fashion industry recognizing that the animals need their fur more than we do.”

63．Which of the following is true about Jay McCarroll?

    A. He is a famous fashion designer.

    B. He is the executive vice president of the HSUS.

    C. He is an editor of Fashion Wire Daily.

    D. He is the head of all animal protection organization.

64．What does “a new chapter” in line two, paragraph one mean?

    A. A new unit of a book.                                                 B. The beginning of a new trend.

C. The latest issue of a magazine.                         D. A newly established organization.

65．Which of the following is NOT recommended for clothing by Jay McCarroll?

A. Polyester.                       B. Bamboo.                         C. Leather.                 D. Patchwork pieces.

66．What do we learn from this passage?

    A. Human beings depend emotionally on animals.

    B. Fashion can go hand in hand with compassion for life.

    C. Fur is more effective than bamboo／cotton blend for clothing.

    D. Fur is more expensive than other materials for fashion designers.