10、I appreciate __________ if you would like to teach me how to use the computer.

A. that                 B. this               C. it                         D. you

9、― Where would you like to have a dinner, in a French restaurant or in a Chinese one?

― It makes __________ to me as long as we can chat while having dinner.

  A. no difference       B. no sense          C. much difference             D. much influence

8、There is already clear __________ to show that plants and animals are being affected by climate change.

  A. witness           B. evidence          C. identity        D. certification

7、― We have booked a room for today and tomorrow. 

―__________, sir.
  A. I’m sure                B. My pleasure       C. I’ll check      D. It’s all right

6、After__________ 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing still planned to control __________ number of vehicles on the roads to ensure clean air.

  A. a; /                      B. a; the              C. the; /          D. the; the

5、Doubt usually comes along when companies talk very proudly how socially responsible they are, but Nike’s decision to publish its entire list of contract suppliers on the Internet is harder to ignore. Nike’s move opens a new front in companies’ efforts to face their critics.

As Nike states in its latest corporate responsibility report, it is often hard to confirm exactly what is happening at about 800 factories that make its footwear and clothing under contract, many of which are remote.

Nike is hoping other companies will publish their factory lists, too. Hannah Jones, Nike’s vice president for corporate responsibility, says Nike would like to see the best run contract factories using their social position as suppliers to the big brands to try to get more work.

Nike’s approach moves corporate responsibility into its third age. The first age was corporate philanthropy companies donating money to various community projects. The $170,   000,000 that Wal Mart gave in charitable donations last year is a good example. Of course, some critics oppose even this form of corporate generosity（慷慨）, arguing that companies should concentrate on making profits, leaving it to shareholders to decide what charitable donations to make.

Corporate responsibility’s second age was reputation management and risk avoidance. Second age corporate responsibility supporters believe agreement with the wider community can warn a company of future risks in advance.

Nike is now trying to go a stage further. The company says it sees corporate responsibility as a way of improving its performance rather than just protecting its reputation. Factories which ensure that workers are registered（已注冊(cè)的） for social security benefits often become more productive as a result. Attention to one aspect of staff management often leads to improvement in others.

If other companies publish supplier lists, they can together work out common standards, Nike says. At present, different companies have different standards, which make life difficult for the many factories that produce for more than one brand. If other companies published suppliers’ locations, they could work out common standards and save money by relying on one another’s checks.

51．Why is it difficult to keep an eye on contract suppliers?

       A．The factories are often distant from companies.

       B．Many suppliers produce for more than one brand.

       C．There are no common standards for their checks.

       D．Some of the contract suppliers lack social responsibility.

52．What effect could Nike’s action have on its contract suppliers?

       A．Their managers will win promotion they desire.

       B．They will get donations from big brands easily.

       C．There’s no need for their factories to be checked.

       D．They may have more opportunities to make money.

53．Which of the following can be described as “the first age of corporate responsibility”?

       A．Communicating with the public to avoid criticism.

       B．Avoiding danger and developing their brands.

       C．Publishing its entire list of contract suppliers.

       D．Offering money to community groups.

54．Which of the following does Nike hope to achieve from its action?

       a. A good reputation as a socially responsible company.

       b. Competition among big brands.

       c. Common standards for companies to follow.

       d. Better living conditions of their staff.

       e. Lower costs and improved performance.

       A．b, c, d                 B．b, d, e                 C．a(chǎn), b, d                 D．a(chǎn), c, e

55．What is the best title of the passage?

       A．A New Age of Corporate Responsibility.

       B．Nike’s Staff Management.

       C．Big Brands Working out Common Standards.

D．Lists of Contract Suppliers.

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4、A serious problem for today’s society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives. It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society. I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem.

First, employers should take the responsibility for their retired employees. To make this possible, a percentage of profits should be set aside for this purpose. But when a company must take life-long responsibility for its employees, it may suffer from a commercial disadvantage due to higher employee costs.

Another way of solving the problem is to return the responsibility to the individual. This means each person must save during his working years to pay for his years of retirement. This does not seem a very fair model since some people have enough trouble paying for their daily life without trying to earn extra to cover their retirement years. This means the government might have to step in to care for the poor.

In addition, the government could take responsibility for the care of the elderly. This could be financed through government taxes to increase the level of pensions. Furthermore, some in-situation should be created for senior citizens, which can help provide a comfortable life for them. Unfortunately, as the present situation in our country shows, this is not a truly viable answer. The government can seldom afford to care for the elderly, particularly when it is busy trying to care for the young.

One further solution is that the government or social organizations establish some working places especially for the elderly where they are independent.

To sum up, all these options have advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that some combination of these options may be needed to provide the care we hope to give to our elderly generations.

46. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The problems faced by the old in society.

B. Why we should take responsibility for the old.

C. How we can improve the lives of the old.

D. Where the old can go to get their pensions.

47. According to the passage, how can the government help to improve the lives of retired people?

       A. Set aside some profits to help people with problems after they retire.

       B. Increase savings levels of people during their working years.

C. Increase the discounts for food and transport for the old.

D. Make available pensions for those who have retired.

48. The underlined word “viable” most probably means “__________”.

        A. impossible        B. practical    C. useful      D. successful

49. What can be concluded from the passage?

A. Taking care of the old is mainly an issue of money.

B. Employers should allow their workers to retire at a later age.

C. Becoming independent should be the goal of most old people.

D. There is no single solution to the problems of the old.

50. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this article?

A. To point out the need for government support for old people.

B. To make general readers aware of the problems of retired people.

C. To discuss some possible solutions to an important social problem.

D. To instruct retired people on how they can have a happier life.

3、Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became good friends because of their shared love for children. Two years after the couple got married; Ellen saw a huge change in the life of one of her students, a 9-year-old girl. Three years earlier both of the little girl’s parents had died and there was no one to take care of her. She was taken away to live in a government office. But finally she was taken in and adopted by a family and became their daughter. Ellen said that she noticed the difference in the child’s life after she was placed in a permanent（長(zhǎng)久的） home and thought that maybe she and her husband could help a child in a similar way.

They decided to become temporary parents and to take a child into their home on the weekends when the real parents could not take care of him or her. The pair planned to have their own children in a few years, but decided that this would be a way to give to the community in the meantime.

The couple quickly grew to love one of the children they looked after. When he became legally available, Billy became the first child they took in permanently. Six months after adopting Billy, Ellen was told by her doctor that she was unable to have children naturally.  Ellen says she knew then that adoption was the way she was meant to have a family.

Since adopting Billy, now 17, Ellen and Bill have adopted five more children ―Rose, 16; Albert, 11; Joshua, 5 and in June 2003, they added biological brother and sister Tyler and Rylee to the County family.

 The County family has been recognized for their work on adoption, and has received many awards for their efforts. Last June, the family was even interviewed on the television show, “Adoption Stories”.

Ellen says she would like to encourage other families to adopt children. She adds that the best part of being a mother of six is: “Giving Josh a bath, putting a braid-aid on a cut knee or just the everyday Mom things, which makes motherhood such an honor and a privilege.”

41. What is the passage mainly about?

A. How a couple first met at college.

B. Where you can adopt a child.

C. The benefits of adoption to the community.

D. How adoption created a happy family.

42. Why did Ellen and Bill first decide to adopt a child?

A. Because they had always loved children very much.

B. Because they saw the benefits of adoption for a child.

C. Because they were not able to have children of their own.

D. Because they wanted to receive awards for their community work.

43. Which of the children are related to each other by blood?

A. Rylee and Tyler.                     

B. Billy and Tyler.

C. Albeit and Joshua.                  

D. Rose and Albert.

44. What can be inferred from this passage?

A. Ellen had thought of adopting a child before getting married.

B. Only kids under 16 can be adopted by a family.

C. A loving family is important to a child’s happiness.

D. Adopting a child always makes the family become famous.

45. The final paragraph __________.

A. tells the reader how they can adopt a child

B. describes the things that make Ellen happy

C. says what Ellen does every day

D. lists the problems Ellen has with the kids

2、    My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was six, gave me important lessons in values that helped me grow into an adult. For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior. Once when I returned in tears from a Saturday baseball game, it was Steve who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my baseball had soared through Mrs. Holt’s basement window, breaking the glass with a crash, Steve encouraged me to confess（坦白） to her. After all, I should have been playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the path between buildings. Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for the window from my pocket money if she would return my ball. I also learned from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing. After I found a shiny silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in spite of the fact that it had little value. He reminded me of how much I’d hate to lose to someone else the small dog my father carved from a piece of cheap wood. I returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still remembered the smell of her perfume as she patted me on my shoulder. Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I was twelve I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun. Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to Steve to come from the house to take a look. I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, “Did it hurt you first, Mark?” I didn’t know what to answer. He continued with his eyes firm, “The only time you should even think of hurting a living thing is whether it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time. ” I really felt terrible then, but that moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.

36. What is the main subject of the passage?

A. The relationship between Mark and Steve.

B. The important lesson Mark learned in school.

C. Steve’s important role in Mark’s growing process.

D. Mark and Steve’s respect for living things.

37. It can be inferred from the passage that when Mark confessed to Mrs. Holt, __________.

A. he felt surprised

B. he was light-hearted 

C. he felt frightened

D. he knelt before her

38. In the story about the pen, which of the following lessons did Steve teach his brother?

A. Respect for personal property.

B. Respect for life.

C. Sympathy for people with problems.

D. The value of honesty.

39. According to the passage, which was the most important lesson Steve taught his young brother?

A. Respect for living things.        

B. Responsibility for one’s actions.

C. The value of the honesty.        

D. Care for the property of others.

40. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Mark was still a boy when he wrote this passage.

B. Mark lost the small dog his father carved.

C. When a living thing hurts you, you should kill it.

D. Even if a living thing hurts you, you should not kill it without hesitation.

1、A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work..

He may have the belief that he is not capable of it. A child may think he is     16    because he does not understand how to make the     17     of his mental faculties. Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning anything new because of their    18      .

A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real     19   , because he feels that it would be useless. He won' t go at a job with the confidence necessary for    20  , and he won't work his hardest, even though he may think he is doing so. He is     21     likely to fail, and the failure will     22    his belief in his incompetence.

Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had a(n)     23    like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor  24  in math. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in math in order that they would not  25    too much of him. In this way, they two   26     the idea. He accepted   27    mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to     28    and was very poor at math,     29   as they expected.

One day he worked out a problem which     30    of the other students had been able to solve. Adler     31    in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now    32   with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at     33    . He not only proved that he could learn math well, but luckily he learned     34     in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may      35     himself as well as others by his ability.