12、Livemocha. com is a free site           visitors can not just learn various languages but also chat online.

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

11、--- Did you visit the famous museum?

--- No. We          , but we spent too much time shopping.

A．might           B．could have           C．will have          D．should

10、--- Is this your second car?

---Yes. Blue is always my colour. It is a little         but still fits         into the garage.

A．wider; more easily                          B．wider; easily

C．widest; more easily               D．widest; easily

9、---Be careful! Don’t forget you are on a ladder.

---But you are holding it for me, nothing         .

A．to be worried about                                     B．worrying about

C．being worried about                                    D．to worry about

8、Lucy’s new job paid twice as much as she had made          in the restaurant.

A．working          B．work          C．to work         D．worked

7、One day, not too long ago, the employees of a large company in St. Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said, “Yesterday the person who had been hindering（阻礙）your  1   in this company passed away．We  2  you to join the funeral in the room that has been   3  in the gym.”

At first everyone was sad to  4  that one of their colleagues had died，  5   after a while they started getting  6  about who this person might be．

The excitement  7  as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last  8  ．Everyone wondered， “Who is this person that was hindering my growth? Well，  9  he’s no longer here!”

  10   the employees got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it, they   11   became speechless. They stood over the coffin,   12   into silence, as if someone had   13   the deepest part of their sould.

There was a mirror inside the coffin—everyone who looked inside it could see himself．There

was also a  14   next to the mirror that  15  , “There is only one person who is capable to     16   limits to your growth: it is YOU.”

    You are the only person who can change your  17   . You are the only person who can   18  your happiness，realization and success．You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not change when your boss changes，your friends change，your parents change，your partner changes or your company changes．Your life changes when YOU change，when you go  19  your limiting beliefs and when you realize that you are the only one  20  for your life．

1．A．a(chǎn)bility                   B．progress              C．talent                  D．practice

2．A．demand                 B．a(chǎn)llow                   C．invite                  D．suggest

3．A．started                  B．prepared              C．opened                D．created

4．A．learn                     B．receive                C．notice                 D．find

5． A．for                      B．or                       C．so                       D．but

6．A．a(chǎn)ngry                    B．sorry                   C．curious               D．nervous

7．A．grew                    B．a(chǎn)ppeared              C．improved             D．developed

8．A．sights                   B．a(chǎn)ttentions             C．a(chǎn)ppreciations       D．respects

9．A．a(chǎn)t least                  B．in fact                 C．a(chǎn)t once                D．in general

10．A．One by one          B．All in all               C．Hand in hand       D．One or twice

11．A．quickly                B．finally                  C．obviously            D．suddenly

12．A．worried               B．depressed            C．shocked              D．embarrassed

13．A．broken                B．touched               C．stolen                  D．changed

14．A．1etter                  B．sign                    C．mark                   D．page

15．A．told                     B．warned                C．wrote                  D．read

16．A．set                      B．take                    C．put                     D．get

17．A．business              B．heart                   C．life                      D．success

18．A．realize                 B．satisfy                 C．influence             D．consider

19．A．for                      B．upon                   C．over                    D．beyond

20． A．reasonable      B．responsible         C．suitable           D．valuable

6、I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration（崇敬）for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s "Funeral Oration", Grey' s "Elegy", and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.

He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc., and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with（著迷于）the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London, I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms－a bedroom and a sitting room－in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

1．We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father _________.

       A．made an important contribution

       B．insisted that he choose writing as a career

       C．opposed his becoming a writer

       D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of _________.

       A．his special talent

       B．his father's teaching and encouragement

       C．his study at Harvard

       D．a(chǎn) hidden urge within him

3．The author _________.

       A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

       B．had always been successful in his writing career

       C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays

       D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

4．The author really started on his way to become a writer _________.

       A．when he was in high school                  B．when he was studying at Harvard

       C．when he lived in London                       D．a(chǎn)fter he entered college

5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?

        A．He left Harvard and got married.          B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.

       C．He started his dream as a writer.         D．he began to think seriously what to do.

5、A home school is a school in which parents educate their children at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school. Home schooling is legal throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Hong Kong, and South Africa. Home schooling is most popular in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Home schooling is legally accepted in all 50 states of the U.S., but each state has its own laws that a family must adhere to. Currently, it is estimated that over one million families school their children at home. Most of these families include a breadwinner and a stay-at-home parent who does most of the teaching, although there are single parent families and double career families.

Home schooling education models range from unschooling to traditional classroom schooling. Unschooling is based on interest-based learning in which the child expresses interest in a particular subject, and the parents take steps to provide the materials for that subject.

    In some places, the home school group shares in hiring a professional teacher to teach a particular subject. The group may also arrange field trips and sports activates with local private schools. These activities are intended to provide social skills for the students.

Home school families take advantage of technology and the Internet to supplement （補(bǔ)充） traditional teaching. Some home school families enroll （注冊） their children in an online school or course as a supplement to their own teaching.

Some home school families teach their children through high school graduation. Others teach their children until they feel they are mature（成熟）enough to live independently.

    In America colleges do recognize a home school diploma （文憑）, but most are more interested in high school transcripts （成績報告單） and SAT and ACT scores. There are currently over 800 colleges that accept home – schooled graduates including Harvard. Yale, and Stanford.

1．A home school is school where          .

       A．parents provide social skills for their children

       B．children needn’t take any tests

       C．parents teach their children at home

       D．children can go home every day

2．In most of the home school families,          .

       A．one parent goes to work and the other stays at home

       B．one parent is a worker and the other is a teacher

       C．both of the parents stay at home

       D．both of the parents go to work

3．In the education model of unschooling,           .

      A．children are taught in traditional ways

       B．children don’t need any textbooks

       C．special attention is paid to children’s interest

       D．everything is decided by children’s parents

4．We can know from the passage that         .

       A．home schooling is only popular in developed countries

       B．children in a home school have no contacts with other students

       C．a(chǎn) home school diploma is not accepted by colleges in America

       D．some children in a home school also take courses online

5．Famous universities like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford          .

       A．a(chǎn)re only interested in accepting public school graduates

       B．a(chǎn)lso take in students with a home school diploma

       C．never enroll home – schooled graduates

D．a(chǎn)lso provide home school education

4、Against the supposition that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia warm the climate, scientists have discovered that cooling may occur in areas where burnt trees allow more snow to mirror more sunlight into space.

This finding suggests that taking steps to prevent northern forest fires to limit the release of greenhouse gases may warm the climate in northern regions. Usually large fires destroyed forests in these areas over the past decade. Scientists predict that with climate warming, fires may occur more frequently over the next several centuries as a result of a longer fire season. Sunlight taken in by the earth tends to cause warming, while heat mirrored back into space tends to cause cooling.

    This is the first study to analyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate. Earlier studies by other scientists have suggested that fire in northern regions speed up climate warming because greenhouse gases from burning trees and plants are released into the atmosphere and thus trap heat.

    Scientists found that right after the fire, large amounts of greenhouse gases entered the atmosphere and caused warming. Ozone（臭氧）levels increased, and ash from the fire fell on far-off sea ice, darkening the surface and causing more radiation from the sun to be taken in. The following spring, however, the land within the area of the fire was brighter than before the fire, because fewer trees covered the ground. Snow on the ground mirrored more sunlight back into space, leading to cooling.

    “We need to find out all possible ways to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Scientists tracked the change in the amount of radiation entering and leaving the climate system as a result of the fire, and found a measurement closely related to the global air temperature. Typically, fire in northern regions occurs in the same area every 80 to 150 years. Scientists, however, found that when fire occurs more frequently, more radiation is lost from the earth and cooling results. Specifically, they determined when fire returns 20 years earlier than predicted, 0.5 watts per square meter of area burned are soaked up by the earth from greenhouse gases, but 0.9 watts per square meter will be sent back into space. The net effect is cooling. Watts are used to measure the rate at which energy is gained or lost from the earth.

1．According to the new findings, taking steps to prevent northern forest fires may __________.

       A．result in a warming climate 

       B．cause the forest fires to occur more frequently

       C．lead to a longer fire season

       D．protect the forests and the environment there

2．The following are all the immediate effects after a forest fire EXCEPT __________.

       A．large amounts of greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere

       B．the levels of ozone which is a type of oxygen increase

       C．snow on the ground mirrors more sunlight back into space

       D．a(chǎn)shes from the fire fall on the ice surface and take in more radiation from the sun

3．Earlier studies about northern forest fires __________.

       A．a(chǎn)nalyze all aspects of how northern fires influence climate

       B．indicate that forest fires will pollute the atmosphere

       C．suggest that people should take measures to protect environment

       D．suggest that the fires will speed up climate warming

4．The underlined phrase “soak up” in the last paragraph most probably means __________.

       A．released              B．a(chǎn)bsorbed           C．created              D．distributed

5．From the passage we can draw a conclusion that forest fires in Alaska, Canada and Siberia may __________.

       A．warm the climate as the supposition goes

       B．a(chǎn)llow more snow to reflect more sunlight into space and thus cool the climate

       C．destroy large areas of forests and pollute the far-off sea ice

       D．help to gain more energy rather than release more energy

3、Someday a stranger will read your e – mail without your permission or scan the Website you’re visited, Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.

In fact, it's likely that some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a spouse, a girl friend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen －the 21st century replacement of being caught naked.

Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it's important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs（碎屑） you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.

The key question is: Does that matter?

For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no."

When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found a strong bad feeling about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "slipping away, and that bothers me."

But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths（收費站） to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will give away personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon（優(yōu)惠卷）.

But privacy does matter ---- at least sometimes. It's like health: When you have it, you don't notice it. Only when it's gone do you wish you'd done more to protect it.

1．What does the author mean by saying "the 21st century replacement of being caught naked"?

       A．People's personal information is easily accessed without their knowledge.

       B．In the 21st century people try every means to look into others' secrets.

       C．People tend to be more frank with each other in the information age.

       D．Criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology.

2．What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?

       A．Friends should open their hearts to each other.

       B．Friends should always be faithful to each other.

       C．There should be a distance even between friends.

       D．There should be fewer arguments between friends.

3．Why does the author say "we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret"？

       A．Modern society has finally developed into an open society.

       B．People leave traces around when using modern technology.

       C．There are always people who are curious about others' affairs.

       D．Many search engines benefit from giving away people's identities.

4．What do most Americans do as for privacy protection?

       A．They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.

       B．They use various loyalty cards for business transactions（交易）.

       C．They rely most and more on electronic devices.

       D．They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.

5．According to the passage, privacy is like health because __       _.

       A．people will make every effort to keep it.

       B．its importance is rarely understood

       C．it is something that can easily be lost

      D．people don't treasure it until they lose it