16、Nancy enjoyed herself so much       she visited her friends in Sydney last year.

A．that                 B．which              C．when               D．where

15、The job will be offered to       is capable of performing it well.

A．who         B．whoever           C．no matter who          D．a(chǎn)nyone

14、—Who should be responsible for the accident?

—The boss, not the workers. They just carried out the order       .

A．a(chǎn)s are told           B．a(chǎn)s told            C．a(chǎn)s telling          D．a(chǎn)s they told

13、Don’t forget the appointment with the principal at the registry office,       you?

A．don’t               B．will              C．do             D．shall

12、At an Expo-themed forum in Shanghai’s Yangpu District, Governments were also urged       a good job in protecting local old buildings and culture while pursuing social and economic development.

A．doing        B．having done             C．to be done               D．to do

11、I keep my dictionary       I can see it easily, as I may use it anytime.

A．which              B．what              C．where              D．when

10、With Internet use       in the world, companies like Yahoo and Google are hunting harder for deals.

A．exploded          B．having exploded          C．being exploded        D．exploding

9、Complete the passage by choosing the proper words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

       I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap year on either side, and I hardly saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely. I had the  1  child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with  2  persons, and I think from the very start my literary  3  was mixed up with the feeling of  4  . I knew that I had a natural ability with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that it  5  

a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

However, the quantity of serious writing which I  6  all through my childhood would not add up to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, with my mother  7  it down on a piece of paper. I cannot remember anything about it except that it was about a tiger and the tiger had “chair-like teeth”—a good enough expression. At eleven, when the war of 1914-18 broke out, I wrote a poem which was printed in the local newspaper, as was another, two years later, on the death of Kitchener. From time to time, when I was a bit older, I wrote bad and usually unfinished “nature poems”. I also, about twice,  8  a short story which was a  9  . That was the total of the would-be serious work that I actually set down on paper during all those years.

8、When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship. Having been a Straight-A student, I believed I could __1__ tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was extremely interested in the ideas he __2__ in class.

When I took the first exam, I was __3__ to find a 77, C-plus, on my test paper, for English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to my arguments but remained __4__.

I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that means __5__ school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I _6__ with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened __7_ but wouldn’t change his mind.

One more test before the final exam. One more __8_ to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts and, for the first time, learned the meaning of the word “  9  ”. But my __10__ did no good and everything went as before.

The last hurdle was the final. No matter what grade I got, it wouldn’t cancel three C-pluses. I might as well kiss the __11__ goodbye.

I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even __12__ myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have fun with a test.

A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into Professor Jayne’s office. He  __13__ to be expecting me. “If I gave you the grade as you expected, you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”

I stared at him, __14__ that his analysis and strategy were correct. I had worked my head off, as I had never done before.

I was __15__ when my course grade arrived: A-plus. It was the only A-plus given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.

1．A．take                      B．discuss                C．cover                  D．get

2．A．sought                  B．presented             C．exchanged           D．obtained

3．A．shocked                B．worried               C．scared                 D．a(chǎn)nxious

4．A．unchanged            B．unpleasant           C．unfriendly            D．unmoved

5．A．when                    B．because               C．if                        D．though

6．A．quarreled               B．reasoned              C．bargained            D．chatted

7．A．a(chǎn)ngrily                  B．patiently              C．surprisedly          D．naturally

8．A．choice                  B．step                    C．chance                D．measure

9．A．tough                    B．difficult               C．final                    D．thorough

10．A．a(chǎn)mbition              B．confidence           C．effort                  D．method

11．A．scholarship          B．course                 C．degree                 D．subject

12．A．helped                 B．favored               C．treated                D．relaxed

13．A．happened             B．proved                C．pretended            D．seemed

14．A．remembering       B．guessing              C．supposing            D．realizing

15．A．a(chǎn)nxious               B．touched               C．speechless           D．correct

7、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 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 if 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.

1．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.

2．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.

3．According to the writer, 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 honesty.

D．Care for the property of others.

4．The underlined word “knocked” in the second paragraph means        .

       A．tapped                 B．beat                    C．struck                 D．trembled