7、        with a difficult situation, Arnold decided to ask his boss for advice.

A．To face     B．Having faced    C．Faced       D．Facing

6、    Every Tuesday evening members of Tsimshian Haayyuk gather at Daybreak Star, a native

American community and arts center in Seattle. Three years ago, when they began, they   1   half a dozen. Today, as many as fifty dancers, singers and drummers, spanning three generations, come to participate.

And they owe it all to David Boxely. Boxley is a(n)   2   known artist, whose carved poles can be found in public and private collections from Walt Disney World to Japan. But on Tuesday evenings Mr. Boxley is a drummer, singer and songwriter, because very few of the Tsimshian’s original songs have   3  .

The Tsimshians were   4   from an area along the Pacific Coast that is now British Columbia, Canada, but many of them moved to Alaska in the 1890s. The US and Canadian governments tried to   5   Tsimshian culture and language, but some of the people managed to preserve the old ways, including Mr. Boxley’s grandparents, who raised him in Metlakatla, Alaska. They taught him everything they know about their   6  . Now he is sharing that knowledge with others.

The children are learning on their own by dancing and singing along with their parents and elders. Tsimshian Haayyuk, which means “spirit of the Tsimshian,” is very much a   7   endeavor.

Teaching his own people about their culture is just one of the   8   of David Boxley. He also wants to share his culture with the rest of the world.   9  has already earned a reputation along the Pacific Northwest Coast, where its performances are   10  .

1．A．a(chǎn)dded up to           B．a(chǎn)dded to              C．a(chǎn)dded up             D．in addition

2．A．nationally              B．national               C．internationally      D．international

3．A．left                       B．existed                C．stayed                 D．survived

4．A．a(chǎn)ccidentally           B．originally             C．fortunately           D．unexpectedly

5．A．damage                 B．cancel                 C．destroy               D．spoil

6．A．songs                   B．culture                C．music                 D．family

7．A．family                   B．group                  C．common             D．community

8．A．interests                B．a(chǎn)ims                    C．dreams                D．missions

9．A．Tsimshian                                             B．Tsimshian Haayyuk 

       C．Haayyuk                                             D．David Boxely

10．A．in respect  B．in public    C．in time      D．in demand

4、    You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman' s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.

Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute failed to open, and he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stunt girls too!

1．Stuntmen are those who ______.

       A．often dress up as actors

       B．prefer to lead dangerous lives

       C．often perform seemingly dangerous actions

       D．often fight each other for their lives

2．Stuntmen earn their living by ______.

       A．playing their dirty tricks

       B．selling their special skills

       C．jumping out of high windows

       D．jumping from fast moving trains

3，When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______.

       A．he needs little protection

       B．he will be covered with a mattress

       C．his life is endangered

       D．his safety is generally all right

4．Which of the following is the main factor (因素) of a successful performance?

A．trength.              B．Exactness.          C．Speed.                D．Carefulness.

5．What can be inferred from the author' s example of the Norwegian stuntman?

A．Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.

B．The percentage of serious accidents is high.

C．Parachutes must be of good quality.

D．The cliff is too high.

3、    When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救護(hù)車) to her rescue.

Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at and time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously (同時(shí)地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1．How do you understand ‘Point 1 – The telephone creates the need to communicate,        ’?

      A．People don’t communicate without telephone.

       B．People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.

       C．People communicate more since telephone has been created.

       D．People communicate more because of more traffic.

2．Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?

       A．Mobile phones help people deal with the emergency.

       B．Mobile phones bring convenience as well as little secret to people.

       C．Mobile phones are so important and should be encouraged.

       D．Mobile phones are part of people’s life.

3．Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?

       a. Point 1.              b. Point 2.               c. Point 3.               d. Point 4.      e. Point 5.

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

4．It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through          .

      A．the TV screen                                    

       B．a(chǎn) fax machine

       C．the phone line hooked up to the computer

       D．a(chǎn) microphone

5．The best heading for the passage is              .

       A．Phone Power                                      B．Kinds of Phones

       C．How to Use Phones                             D．Advantages of Phones

2、In 1947 the pilot of a small airplane saw nine strange objects in the sky over Washington in the USA. He said that they looked like saucers. Newspapers printed his story under the headline “Flying Saucers”.

Since then, all over the world, people have reported seeing similar strange objects. No one knows what they are or where they come from. Some people say that they do not exist, but many others say that they have seen them. Usually people on the ground have seen them but not always. Airline pilots also have reported seeing them and so have astronauts ---the men who fly in spaceships.

Perhaps some people saw them only in their imagination. Perhaps some people made a mistake. But airline pilots and astronauts do not usually make mistakes of this kind. Captain Ed Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon, said in 1974 that he believes that some “flying saucers” are real. Many other people now believe that these strange flying objects are visiting the earth from other worlds in space.

“They have come to look at us,” they say. The American government tried to find out more about these objects. It listened to a great many people who said they had seen them. But the Government Committee could not decide on what the objects were. It called them UFOs, which is short for “Unidentified Flying Objects”.

Some say they have seen people in the flying saucers! In 1964, a driver of a police car in New Mexico saw a UFO landing a mile away. When he reached it, there were two small figures standing near it. They looked like little men. When he reported on his radio, they got inside the object and flew away.

In 1973 two men were out fishing in Mississippi. They say they saw a UFO shaped like an egg. There were three creatures like men but their skins were silver in color. They had no eyes, and their mouths were just slits (裂縫). Their noses and ears were pointed. They made the fishermen get inside the UFO for a while. Then the creatures photographed them and took them to the place where they had been fishing.

There are many other similar stories. Some are probably untrue but some may be true. No one knows.

1．         took pictures of the two fishermen.

       A．The creatures in a UFO                        B．A driver of a police car

       C．A pilot of a plane                                  D．Captain Ed Mitchell

2．The American government tried to ____.

       A．look for the flying objects

       B．know where the objects come from

       C．learn more about UFOs

       D．report more about UFOs

3．According to the passage, the name “flying saucers” was first used by ____      .

       A．a(chǎn) pilot of a small plane

       B．a(chǎn)n official in Washington

       C．a(chǎn)n editor of a newspaper

       D．the man who flies in saucers

4．The purpose of this passage is to tell us               .

       A．the shape of UFOs B. how to observe UFOs

       C．the danger of UFOs D. what we know about UFOs

5．It is implied in the passage that the author

       A．does not believe at all about the existence of UFOs

       B．believes that UFOs are real objects flying in the sky

       C．is not sure whether there are UFOs or not

       D．thinks UFOs come from other planets