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1、ADear editor,Several days ago, I heard that a dear friend of mine had killed herself.I was deep in sorrow by the sudden news. I can t keep calm any longer.I m always thinking about life and death.Life is so precious. If we can slip into death in an impulsive ( 冲动的 )moment, what use in all our effort
2、s and hopes? Our families, ourambitions, everything is flung into total darkness. And death allows no time for regret.Nevertheless, the suicide rate increases year by year, particularly of young people. Reasons may vary from person to person, yet I think they share something in common.First, today y
3、oungs people are morally weak. They hunger for success but can not face failure; they are eager to be understood but afraid of opening their hearts to others. They live in a wide world, from east to west, ancient to present, but their hearts beat in a narrow desert, closed tight, unable to communica
4、te. Each becomes an isolated fortress (孤堡 ), lonely, and weak.My friend is a good example of that. As a young teacher, she wasdevoted to her work but was disappointed with her students occasiofailures. She fell in love with a colleague but he deserted her. With noclose friends, disappointed at work
5、and in love, death seemed to her theonly remaining choice and she took it.Another reason forthe weakness of today youth,s in my opinion,comes from society s pressures. The young are forced to try too hard tosucceed. On the otherhand, society refuses to accept thatchildrensometimes do fail. But failu
6、re is more important because it can teach theyoung how to win next time.What can we do to save the desperate young?1. The passage wants to tell us.A. a lot of young people choose death to escape from the societysuicide is larger and largerB. the number of people who takeC. the young people should go
7、 to see doctors to solve thespiritual problemsD. the reason why the young kill themselves lies in two main kinds2. In the writer s opinion, failure is.A. the mother of successB. the key to successC. good for the youngD. bad for the young3. Among the following, which one is NOT the cause of “myfriend
8、sdeath ”?A. She has too much society s pressureB. She is not well contentwith her work.D. She doesnt get on wellC. She is disappointed in love.with others.would be most likely to4. The passage suggests those peopletake suicide.B. who are weak-mindedA. who are alonesC. who fail in loveD.who suffer fr
9、omsocietypressuresBAmy tan, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, received the Commonwealth Gold Award in 1989 for her first work of fiction, the best-selling Joy Luck Club. The sixteen stories that make up the work alternate (交替 ) the tales of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their Am
10、ericanized daughters, in an exploration of the generational and cultural tensions (紧张关系 ) experienced by many first-generation daughters of immigrants.Tans parents, like many immigrants, had high expectations for their children and often set puzzling standards, expecting Amy and her two brothers to
11、think like Chinese but to speak perfect English, be excellent at school work, and take advantage of every situation that might lead tosuccess. Tan, however, rebelled (反叛 ) against her parents expectationsand devoted herself to being thoroughly American and dreaming of beinga fiction writer.s degree
12、in English and linguistics(语言学 ) and aTan got a bachelormaster degrees in linguistics and established herself asa highlysuccessful business writer. Tan, however, was not satisfied in spite of her material success. Turning to her life long dream, she wrote her first short story, “ Endgame,and” then a
13、 second, “ Waitingbetween the trees. In” 1987 Tan visited her half-sisters in China with her mother, a trip that proved to be a turning point in her life and career. Tan felt a sense of completeness, a tie with the country and its culture that she had never expected. Returning from China, Tan was su
14、rprised to learn that on the strength of her short stories she had received an advance from a publisher. Tan closed her business and wrote the remaining stories for the Joy Luck Club. It was a great success, well received by the public and appearing on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been
15、 translated into seventeen languages, including Chinese, and was made into a movie in 1993.5. What is the writers main purpose in this passage? A. To analyze (分析 )A my Tans works.B. To support Amy Tan s decision to become a fiction writer. C. To present Amy Tan s personal experiences.D. To criticize
16、 Amy Tans rebellion against her parents.6.According to the passage, Amy Tan s visit to China.A. was disappointingB. had a great pushing effect onher.D. was a trip she had alwaysC. was not surprising in the least.dreamed of taking.“the work ” in paragraph 1 refer. to7. The underlined wordsA. storiesB
17、. writing8.C. Commonwealth Club Gold AwardD. Joy Luck ClubIt can be concluded from this passage that.A. parents dont know how to educate their children.B. Tan did not use personal experience in her writing.C. Tan made the right decision when she closed her business.D. Tan thinks and lives more in an
18、 American way than in a Chineseway.CBRITAIN is a popular tourist place. But tours of the country have pros and cons.Good newsFree museums.No charge for outstanding collections of art and antiquities. Pop music. Britain is the only country to rival ( 与比敌 ) the US on this score.Black cabs. London taxi
19、 drivers know where they are going even if there are never enough of them at weekends or night.Choice of food. Visitors can find everything from Ethiopian to Swedish restaurants.Fashion. Not only do fashion followers love deeply and respect highly brand names such as Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQ
20、ueen; street styles are justly loved, too.Bad newsPoor service. “It s part of the image of the place. People can dine out on the rudeness they have experienced, ” says Professor Tony Seaton, ofLuton University s International Tourism Research Center.Poor public transport. Trains and buses are promis
21、ed to defeat the keenest tourists, although the over-crowded London tube is unbelievable popular.Lack of languages. Speaking slowly and clearly may not get many foreign visitors very far, even in the tourist traps .Rain. Still in the number one complaint.No air-conditioning. So that even splendidly
22、hot summers become as unbearable as the down-pours.Overpriced hotels. The only European country with a higher rate of tax on hotel rooms is Denmark.Licensing hours. Alcohol ( 酒) is in short supply after 11p.m. even in“ 24-hour cities.”9. What do tourists complain most?A. Poor service.B. Poor public
23、transport.C. Rain.D.Overpriced hotels.10. What do we learn about pop music in Britain and the US through this passage?A. Pop music in Britain is betterthan that in the US.B. Pop music in Britain is as good as that in the US.C. Pop music in Britain is worse than that in the US.D. Pop music in Britain
24、 is quite different from that in the US.11.When is alcohol not able to get easily?A. At 9:00 p.m.B. At 10:00 p.m.C. At 11:00 p.m.D. At12:00p.m.12. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. You have to pay to visit themuseums.B. It s very cheap to travel byitheretax.C. You cannot fin
25、d Chinese food there.D. The public transport is poor there.DWhen I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “ thephone ” . Personally,couldI do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telepho
26、ne 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 s
27、chool with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?Point 2The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “Themobile saved my life,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in herVolvo on the A45 between Otleyand Skipton. Trapped inside, shemanaged to make the
28、call that brought the ambulance to her rescues.Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketingmanager ofHaba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff allround the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they aregoing, and how their last meeting went.Point 4The telep
29、hone separates us.Antomella Bramante in Romesays, “ Weworked in separate offices but I could see him through thewindow. It was easy to get his number. We were so near-but we didn tmeet for the first two weeks!”Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to se
30、veral complete strangers at once on chat lines (atleast 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) whilethey respace-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access to the Internet,
31、the biggest library on Earth.13. How do you understand“Point-The1 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
32、 more because of more traffic.14. 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
33、phones are part of people s life.15Which points do you thinksupport the idea that phones improvepeople s life?c. Point 3d. Point 4e. Point 5a. Point 1b. Point 2A. c, bB. a, eC. a, cD.b, e16. The best heading for the passage is.A. Phone PowerB. Kinds of PhoneC. How to Use PhonesD. Advantage of Phones
34、Although weEinfluenza, andalready know a great deal aboutalthough the World Health Organizations is constantly collecting detailed information from its chain of influenza reference laboratories throughout the world, it is extremely difficult for epidemiologists, who study infectious (传染的 ) diseases,
35、 to predict when and where the next flu epidemic(流感 ) will occur, and how serious it will be.There are three kinds of influenza virus, known as A, B and C. Influenza C virus is relatively stable and causes mild infections that do not spread far through the population. The A and B types are unstable,
36、 and are responsible for the epidemics that cause frequent concern. Following any virus attack, the human body builds up antibodies whichcan be changed into immunity（免疫力） to that strain of virus but a virus with the ability to change its character is able to bypass this protection. Variability is le
37、ss developed in the influenza B virus, whichaffects only human beings. As influenza B virus may cause a widespread epidemic but will have little effect if introduced into the same community soon afterwards, since nearly everyone will have built up antibodies and will be immune. The influenza A virus
38、, which affects animals also, is extremely unstable and is responsible for some of the worst outbreaks of the disease, such as the world epidemic, of 1918&1919, when about half the world populations were infected and about twenty million people died, some from pneumonia caused by the virus itself an
39、d some from secondary complication caused by bacteria. Accurate prediction is difficult because of the complication of the factors. A particular virus may be related to one to which some of the population have partial involved immunity. The extent to which it will spread will depend on factors such
40、as its own strength, or virulence, the ease with which it can be transmitted and the strength of the opposition in encounters. Scientists, however, have a reliable general picture of the world situation.17. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?A. Symptoms of Influenza
41、.B. Man Vs Influenza Virus.C. World Health Organization: Forefront against Influenza Virus.D. Variability of Influenza Virus.18. What does the author say about the influenza B virus?A. B Virus is relatively stable and causes mild infections that do not spread far through the population.B. B Virus is
42、 unstable, and is responsible for the epidemics thatcause frequent concern.C. B virus is extremely unstable and is responsible for some of theworst outbreaks of thedisease.D. B virus has a very developed variability, and it affects only human beings.19. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a f
43、actor contributing to the extent to which a virus spreads?A. The strength of the virus.B. The strength of theopposition.which the viruscan beC. The virus encounters the ease withtransmitted.D. The immunity the virus can bring about.20. This article is quite probably.pieceofnewsA.aB. a special science reportD. a scientific fictionC. an introduction to a book参考答案DCDBCBDDCBDDCBDABBDB