4、    All over the world，libraries have begun the great task of making faithful digital copies of the books and records that protect the mental efforts of mankind?. For armchair schools，the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to desktop that the present Internet may not match.

    Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First，it helps them preserve rare and easily broken objects without refusing the demands of those who wish to study them. The British Library, for example，holds the only medieval(middle-aged)manuscript(手稿)of Beowuif in London. Only quantified scholars were allowed to set and put the images up on the Internet for anyone to use.

    A second benefit is convenience. Once books arc changed to digital form， readers can find them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can read the same book or view the same picture at the same time. Clerks are spared the chore (瑣事)of reserving. And libraries could use the Internet to lend their collections to those who are unable to visit in person.

    The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk(磁盤(pán))rather than meters on a shelf. The cost of library buildings is increasingly high. The University of California at Berkeley recently spent $46 million on all underground addition to house 1. 5 million books at an average cost of $30 per set of them. The price of disk storage on the contrary, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop

64. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

    A. Libraries are making efforts.     

    B. More people can read precious books.

    C. The Internet provides more information.

    D. Libraries are making digital copies of books.

65. Which words in the second paragraph help you to identify the supporting points?

    A. Three，first，for example.     B. Benefim，manuscript，scholars

    C. Helps，holds，scanned          D. Clear qualified，different

66. Which of the following is mentioned in the text as a benefit of going digital?

    A. Fewer staff will be required in libraries.

    B.Libraries will be able to move underground.

    C. Borrowers need not go to the library buildings.

    D. Old manuscripts can be moved more easily.

67. How does the author develop the text?

   A. First the author gives some messages and then explain them.

   B. First the author presents his opinions and then describes them.

   C. First the author informs us of main arguments and then compares them.

   D. First the author makes an introduction and then draws a conclusion.

3、    What do a l5-year-old high school student named Vogt and Thomas Paine have in common? The answer is that both inspired major changes in their societies by writing an essay. In October，a student at west Milford high school in New Jersey read an article in her local newspaper that disturbed her. The article reported that the board of education had decided to use polystyrene tray in the lunchroom because they were less expensive than paper one’s.

    Vogt knew from her science class that polystyrene can have harmful effects on the environment in the first place. It is not biodegradable，meaning that it can’t be broken down by natural biological processes. in addition，some polystyrene products give off gases called chloroflulrocarbons(CFCs)into the air. Scientific evidence indicates that these CFCs break down the protective ozone layer(臭氧層)of the atmosphere.

    Vogt decided to write a paper for her social studies class on the issue of polystyrene. Her teacher, Carl Stehle，read her paper to the class. After reminding students that Thomas Paine had had to persuade many hesitant colonists(殖比者) to support the American Revolution，Stehle challenged his class to do something about the polystyrene problem.

    Vogt and her classmates immediately conducted a survey in the high school and middle school . They discovered that a large majority of students said they wanted to switch back to paper goods in the cafeteria. When they presented their findings to the board of education，the boards business administrator did a survey of his own. He found that roughly 80 percent of the students in the two schools would be willing to pay extra 5 cents to eat their lunch from paper trays. As a result，the board voted in December to change to paper trays in all the townships schools.

60. Why does the author mention Thomas Paine in the passage?    

  A. Vogt and Thomas Paine live in the same period.

  B. Both Vogt and Thomas Paine are concerned about environment.

  C. They both conducted a survey to find a solution.

  D. They both did something to make a change in society.

61. The word “polystyrene’’ in the first paragraph most probably refers to         ?

  A. a kind of material friendly to environment      B. a kind of green food

  C. a kind of material harmful to environment      D. a kind of poisonous gas

62. All the following questions are answered in the article except          .

  A. How did vogt get interested in the polystyrene problem?

  B. How is polystyrene harmful to the environment?

  C. Do most students in two schools want to use paper trays?

  D. How did Vogt react towards the board’s vote?

63. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

  A. The Advantage of Paper Trays     B. A Survey in a High School

  C. Making a Difference                    D. The Disadvantage of polyztyrene Trays

2、    Starbucks coffee shops can be found all over America and in more than thirty countries around the world. Many people think they are great places. to enjoy a cup of hot coffee or tea. But others dislike the company.

    If you are in any major city in America，the chances are great that you are not far from a Stalbucks. in fact, you might be very close to several of these coffee shops. The company started in the West Coast city of Seattle，Washington， in 1971. Starbucks was named after a character in the famous American novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Today, there are more than 1 2. 000 Stalbucks around，the world. Sales in 2008 were almost eight billion dollars.

    Starbucks sells more than just plain coffee. It started a whole coffee culture with its own special language and coffee workers called “baristas”. It sells many kinds of hot and cold coffee drinks；like White Chocolate Mocha and Frappuccino. It also sells music recorders，coffee makers，food，and even books. But most of all，it sells the idea of being a warm and friendly place for people to sit，read or talk.      

    Starbucks is a great success story. Buyers ate willing to pay as much as five dollars for coffee drink. Many people say they go to Starbucks because they can depend on it to have exactly what they want and it is nearby. Some say Starbucks has helped to educate people about coffee from many countries.

    However, some people do not like the company’s expansion. Owners of independent coffee stores cannot compete with Starbucks. Some small coffee sellers even took the company to court，saying Starbucks controls the market and foxes out competition.     

56. Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?

    A. Starbucks，tile Coffee Giant(巨人)      B. The World’s Starbucks

    C. Starbucks，Selling Ideas                     D. Starbucks，In or Out

57. People will go to Starbucks for coffee drink because of          .

    A. the sense of satisfaction there

    B. the highly educated baristas

    C. the plain taste of the drink

    D. the low price there    

58. What do you think takes the most important role in Starbucks’ success?

    A. Selling their ideas，                  B. The coffee culture they have created.

    C. Their great economic power.     D. All kinds of their coffee drinks.

59. The writer’s attitude towards Starbucks. is       in writing the passage.

  A. supportive    B. critical(批評(píng)的)    C. objective D. doubtful

1、   We expected our first child to be perfect. ”How many parents have said. or at least thought. those words? Most likely every single one.

    I know that’s what I  36  with our oldest son，Joe. He was always a  37  kid. He wasn’t the kind of boy who  38  snowballs at passing cars on a cold winter day or who  39  water balloons on the mail carrier from an upstairs window during hot August.   40  he wasn’t perfect. From the day Joe started kindergarten. he  41   －with maths. Always maths. While he passed each grade，it was never with flying colors，and he was  42  at the top of his class. How I  43   friends who had children with the. ”maths gene”. I don’t know how many times I  44  while listening to another mom telling me that her daughter was doing high school algebra while in sixth grade.

    After hearing one of these stories―and there were so  45  of them over the years  46   hang up the telephone and took over at Joe―who would be happily playing a video game，drawing a picture. or simply  47   a warm spring day－ and  48  why we didn’t raise a maths genius. How is he ever going to get into college if he doesn’t get  49  at maths?

       Needless to say, my worries never really amounted to much. Moms 50   to worry and worry, while whatever they are worrying about usually disappears on its own or is quickly replaced by another  51 

    During high school，Joe slowly improved at maths. He  52  algebra  l， geometry and algebra l , our state requirements for maths. One day he said to me：“I would be taking pre-calculus(學(xué)習(xí)微積分前必修課程)in my last year of high school. 1 want to do really well in college. Morn，I know it will be hard but I  think it’s a 53  that I try to do my best. ”

    No，my oldest son wasn’t perfect. He ash’s a maths genius，either. But he knew what was important：he Was focusing on his future while I was worrying over his  54 . Joe was trying to do his best even when he knew how hard that was going to be. And that, to me. is even better than being  55

24、----What time do you start work?

---- _____________.

  A. It’s none of your business.        B. It varies.

  C. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.                 D. It doesn’t make any difference

23、Jack’s room always has the dusty smell of an apartment whose windows are　opened.

A．rarely                   B．generally             C．a(chǎn)pparently           D．frequently

22、-- Alison, I'm sorry. I can't play tennis with you tomorrow morning.  

-- ________?  

-- I fell off my bike yesterday and my leg hurts.  

A. How is it              B. How come          C. So what         D. What's the problem  

21、In the competition, women are asked          some of the exercises      music.

   A. performing；to                 B. performing; with

   C. to perform；to                  D. to perform；by

20、－What’s the weather like today?

－Windy. Look at the           leaves in the wind!

A fall            B. falling           C. fallen          D. being

19、If you are          the thunderstorm, you’d better stay in the low-lying areas

   A. unlucky enough to be caught in           B. enough unlucky to be caught in

   C. to be caught unlucky enough in           D. to be enough unlucky caught in