15、---- How is everything going?

-----Not smoothly. The problem is not __ so easy as we thought. It is far from being settled.

A．a(chǎn)lmost            B．hardly            C．nearly            D．scarcely

14、The other parents tried to pull the heartbroken father off_________ was left of the school,

saying “ It’s too late to dig! They are all dead.”

A．where            B．what               C．which             D it

13、Students are frequently advised to _____ unnecessary words when writing an essay.

A．cross off           B．break off           C．let off            D．leave off  

12、________, the professor began the lecture.

A．Seen that we had taken our seats         B．Having taken our seats

C．When we took our seats                            D．Seating ourselves well

11、The book is written in______ easy English ______beginners can understand.

A．so, that           B, such, that                   C．so, as             D．such, as 

10、Things annoyed me a lot with outside town visitors limited, otherwise I _______ Beijing to enjoy the Grand Parade for the 60th anniversary half a month ago. But I __________ the live show on TV.

A．would go to , have managed to watch

B．would have gone to , managed to watch

C．went to, would have managed to watch              

D．should have gone to, would manage to watch

9、---Have you ever heard of Will Smith’s new movie” The Pursuit of Happiness”?

---_________. Does it come out in February

A．Yes, I see                                           B．No, I never heard of it.

C．Yes, it rings a bell                               D．No, it came as no surprise. 

8、During his college years, Rogers spent a summer in an Idaho logging camp. When the superintendent had to leave for a few days, he put Rogers ___1____

   “___2____the men refuse to follow my orders？” Rogers asked. He ____3____Tony, an immigrant worker who complained all day, giving the other men a hard time. “Fire___4_____,” the superintendent said. Then, as if ___5____Rogers’ mind, he added, “I have been logging for 40 years. Tony is the most ____6_____worker I’ve ever had. I know he is a grouch（常抱怨的人） and that he hates everybody and everything. But he comes in first and ____7_____last. There has not been an accident for eight years on the hill __8____he works.”

    Rogers ____9____the next day. He went to Tony and spoke to him. “Tony, do you know I’m in charge here today？” Tony grunted（哼一聲）, “I was going to fire you ___10___we tangled, but I want you to know I’m not,” he told Tony, adding what the superintendent___11____.

    When he finished, Tony dropped the __12____of sand he had held and tears ___13____in his eyes. That day Tony worked ___14____than ever before——and he smiled! He later said to Rogers, ''My first foreman who ever say, ‘Good work, Tony’.''

    Twelve years later Rogers met Tony again who was now superintendent for railroad construction .Rogers asked him __15____he came to California and happened to have such success.

    Tony replied, “If it not be for the one minute you talk to me __16____in Idaho, I almost kill somebody someday. One minute __17____my whole life.”

    What a difference a minute of affirmation can ____18____in any relationship! One minute. Have you got one minute to thank someone？ A minute to tell someone ____19______you sincerely like or __20______about her？ One minute. It can make a difference for a lifetime.

1.A．in place                  B．take control    C．in charge             D．in responsible

2.A．What if                  B．If only          C．In case               D．Even if

3.A．came across              B．thought of       C intended for             D．hated

4.A．him                      B．someone         C．everyone             D．them

5.A．knowing                  B．reading         C．seeing               D．understanding

6.A．reliable                   B．respective        C．considerable          D．incredible

7.A．ends                     B．turns out        C．leaves                D．comes up

8.A．when                    B．that             C．there                 D．where

9.A．took in                   B．took on          C．took over                      D．took up

10.A．the first time when    B．the moment    C．for the first time     D．the first time that

11.A．said                    B．have said         C says                 D．had said

12.A．shovelful               B．shovel          C．spoon              D．spoonful

13.A．bounced               B．sprung        C．welled              D．ran

14.A．less                   B．harder           C．fewer              D．further

15.A.why                     B．when          C．where              D．how

16.A．back                  B．there          C．behind              D．a(chǎn)way

17.A．change                 B．shape           C．a(chǎn)ffect              D．compromise

18.A．lead to                 B．cause         C．influence           D．make

19.A．how                   B．what             C．why               D．that

20.A．a(chǎn)ppealed               B．a(chǎn)pplied          C．a(chǎn)ppreciated          D．a(chǎn)pproved

7、Doris Lessing, a novelist whose books have swept across continents and reflects her concern about the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. The award comes with about $1.6 million.

    Ms Lessing never finished high school and largely educated herself through reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, nonfiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11^th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

    Ms. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Attracted by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to Zimbabwe, where Ms. Lessing had what she has called a painful childhood.

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury in southern Rhodelsia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling as if she were put in prison, she abandoned her family. She later married Gottfried Lessing, and they had a son.

    When Mr. Lessing and her marriage broke up, she and her young son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her writing career. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing was published in Britain in 1949. Ms Lessing’s strongest influence may be that she inspired a generation of feminists（女權(quán)主義者）with her breakthrough novel, The Golden Notebook. The book was published in 1962, which wrote about  the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms. Lessing’s secondary personality. She wrote about the inner lives of women and rejected the opinion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children.

1. Ms. Lessing’s family moved from Iran to Zimbabwe because__________.

A．farming could make them become well off

B．her laid-off parents could find jobs

C．she could receive a better education

D．she could have a chance to take up writing

2. It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A．Doris Lessing is Ms. Lessing’s pen name.

B．Doris May Tayler is the name of Ms.Lessing’s birth place

C．Anna Wulf is Ms. Lessing’s name used before

D．Doris May Tayler is Ms. Lessing’s once used name

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A．Ms. Lessing is the 11^th person to win the Nobel Prize Literature.

B．Ms. Lessing got down to writing after graduation from high school.

C．Ms. Lessing married three times and has three children

D．Ms. Lessing disapproves of women abandoning their life to their marriage.

4. We can know from the text that _________.

A．Ms. Lessing’s writing career took off in her twenties

B．The Golden Notebook was about Ms. Lessing’s broken marriage life

C．Ms. Lessing’s books are involved in social and political issues of her time

D．The failure of Ms. Lessing’s marriage was due to her devotion to career.

6、Growing up as a youngster, and even today as somewhat of an “oldie”, there is nothing I like better than being able to go to a library. To be honest I have good memories of a tiny library in the remote north of Australia in a town called Roe Bourne, where I did a lot of my research for my masters. I think it was just the feeling of peace that was found inside.

What’s fascinated me here since coming to China is the way that many people use bookshops as virtual libraries. I’ve noticed in some of the huge bookstores that many customers will pick up a book or magazine and then just spend hours reading it in the shop. Some even just sit down right there on the floor and start reading – I’ve even seen some fellow bring a fold-up chair!

It’s quite a contrast really because back home in the bookshops or newsagents usually the boss prefers that we don’t touch the books or magazines in case we dirty them, rip them or try to steal them. One of their more common remarks to a customer who is looking at a text is, “Are you going to buy that? This isn’t a library you know.” What a pain!

Anyway these days I wonder if it is all changing.

With the internet becoming so pervasive and so many books, magazines and journals going electronic, in many ways it is cheaper and more efficient to just have everything available online. Though for all its efficiencies, I wonder if we lose something if we stop investing in public libraries.

I don’t feel the same romanticism for knowledge and literature when I go to a net bar to research nor do I think senior citizens feel comfortable surfing online in such public places amid gaming and qq chatters.

1. From the first paragraph, we can guess that________.

A．The writer is kind of a bookworm.

B．The writer was born in Roe Bourne

C．The writer was once a researcher in Australia.

D．The writer does not like libraries

2. According to the writer which of the following is NOT the fact about bookshops in China and the writer’s hometown?

A．Chinese people usually spend hours reading in the bookshops.

B．Chinese people use bookshops as virtual libraries.

C．The shopowner in the writer’s hometown doesn’t like people to touch the books for fear that the books get dirty.

D．The shopowner in the writer’s hometown often persuade readers to buy the books.

3. What’s the writer’s opinion about internet?

A．Internet has much efficiency.

B．He prefers a library rather than internet.

C．People will lose everything if investment in public libraries is stopped.

D．It’s a romance to go to a net bar talking amid gaming and qq chatters.