home. Mr. Carr, the boss, stared at him and said: "Hold on, Alfred. Maybe you"d be good enough to
take the things out of your pockets and leave them here before you go." Alfred"s face got red. After a
little hesitation, he took out what he had stolen. Mr. Carr said, "Maybe I should call your mother and
let her know I"m going to have to put you in prison."
Alfred thought his mother would come rushing in, eyes burning with anger. But, to his surprise, she
arrived wearing a smile. "Hello, I"m Alfred"s mother. Is he in trouble?" she said. Mr. Carr was surprised,
too. He had expected Alfred"s mother to come in nervously, shaking with fear, asking with wet eyes for
a mercy for her son. But no, she was most calm, quiet and pleasant and was making Mr. Carr feel guilty…Soon Mr. Carr was shaking his head in agreement with what she was saying. "Of course", he said, "I don"t want to be cruel. You are right. Sometimes, a little good advice is the best thing for a boy at certain times
in his life and it often takes the youths long time to get sense into their heads." And he warmly shook Mrs. Higgins"s hand.
Back home, without even looking at Alfred, she said, "You are a bad luck. It is one thing after another, always has been. Why do you stand there so stupidly? Go to bed." In his bedroom, Alfred heard his
mother in the kitchen. There was no shame in him, just pride in his mother"s strength. He felt he must tell her how great she was. As he got to the kitchen, he saw his mother drinking a cup of tea. He was shocked
by what he saw. His mother"s face was a frightened, broken one. It was not the same cool, bright face he
saw earlier in the drug store. As she lifted the tea cup, her hand shook. And some of the tea splashed on
the table. Her lips moved nervously. She looked very old. He watched his mother without making a sound. The picture of his mother made him want to cry. He felt his youth coming to an end. He saw all the troubles he brought his mother in her shaking hand and the deep lines of worry in her grey face. It seemed to him
that this was the first time he had ever really seen his mother.
B. he should have called a policeman in first
C. Alfred"s mother appeared polite and gentle
D. he thought he was partly responsible for it
B. "I can"t believe it! You are treating my son like that!"
C. "You know, it takes time for a youth to truly grow up."
D. "Punishment makes sense because it teaches about the law."
B. Mrs. Higgins"s attitude towards parental sufferings.
C. Mrs. Higgins"s love and care for her son Alfred.
D. Mrs. Higgins"s greatness as a woman.
B. change his attitude towards life
C. learn to live an independent life
D. hate Mr. Carr for hurting his mother
object that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin that had been shed by one of our many garden snakes.
"Isn"t it beautiful?" said my wideeyed sevenyearold daughter.
I stared at the organic wrapper and thought to myself that it really wasn"t that beautiful,but I have
learned never to appear uninterested with children. They see only good quality and excellence in the
world until educated otherwise.
"Why does it do this?" Sarah asked.
"Snakes shed their skin because they need to renew themselves." I explained. "Why do they need to
renew themselves?" Sarah asked.
I suddenly remembered an article on this page many years ago where the w
riter was expressing her concept of renewal. She used layers of paper over a wall to describe how we hide our original selves, and
said that by peeling away those layers one by one, we see the original beneath. "We often need to shed our
skins and those coatings that we cover ourselves with." I said to my now absorbed daughter. "We outg
rowsome things and find other ones unwanted or unnecessary. Tills snake no longer needs this skin. It is probably too crinkly (起皱的) for him, and he probably doesn"t think he looks as smart in it as he once did."
Sarah was getting the point. As we talked, I knew that she began to understand, although slightly, that
renewal is part of progress; that we need to take a good look at ourselves, our rooms, schoolwork and
creativity, and see what we need to keep and what we need to cast off. I was careful to point out that this
is a natural consequence of their growth.
"I see, Dad." said Sarah and jumped off my lap and ran off.
I hoped she would remember this. That often, in order to find our real selves underneath the layers of
community and culture with which we cover ourselves year after year, we need to start examining these
layers. We need to gently peel some away, as we recognize them to be worthless or unnecessary; or at
best, store the ones thrown away as mementoes (念想) of our promotion to a better vitality or spirit.
B. puzzled
C. uninterested
D. excited
B. to review what has been done
C. a natural part of getting mature
D. the process of finding the unwanted
B. shows concern for nature and culture
C. can grasp the chance to educate children
D. often encourages his daughter to raise questions
B. we should renew ourselves to get improved
C. snakes shed their skins to renew themselves
D. we should explore our original nature underneath
It 1 me of how many people I"ve seen who take the yellow light as a 2 to go faster．I also
can"t understand why people don"t move when the traffic light has turned green． Above all, there
are those 3 situations in which someone doesn"t even 4 that the light turns red, and just keeps
going．That is why so many 5 happen! All these situations make me 6 the purpose of traffic lights．
7 , it"s even more frightening to imagine letting people make their own decisions at __8 crossroads．Do the biggest cars get to go first? Who decides who goes next? So I guess I do like the idea of a
system to 9 traffic．And I"ll do my best to 10 the traffic rules: to go, to be cautious, and to stop
when I"m 11 to．
It occurs to me that my 12 have done much the same for me 13 teaching me how to live．
They have given me many 14 lights: to get along well with others, to listen and talk to them, to help
others, and to 15 with joy and purpose．They have also given me some red lights 16 my life goes
astray(误入歧途): not to be greedy, to keep my temper, and to control my desires．And there 17
have been some yellow caution lights: to watch how much I drink, to keep control of my behavior, and
to 18 school regularly and work hard．
If I obey these rules, my life will be as 19 as it can be．Just as I"m wise to pay attention to the
traffic lights when I"m walking across the street, I"m wise to pay attention to the" 20 signals" given to
me by my parents．
( )2.A．sight
( )3.A．instant
( )4.A．notice
( )5.A．events
( )6.A．think of
( )7.A．Besides
( )8.A．noisy
( )9.A．control
( )10.A．learn
( )11.A．supposed
( )12.A．teachers
( )13.A．in charge of
( )14.A．safe
( )15.A．live
( )16.A．unless
( )17.A．still
( )18.A．start
( )19.A．good
( )20.A．traffic
B．signal
B．exciting
B．sense
B．problems
B．wonder about
B．Anyway
B．narrow
B．direct
B．obey
B．used
B．friends
B．in face of
B．green
B．share
B．when
B．even
B．attend
B．colorful
B．light
C．message
C．dangerous
C．remember
C．situations
C．care for
C．Instead
C．crowded
C．improve
C．protect
C．devoted
C．leaders
C．in terms of
C．beneficial
C．work
C．before
C．only
C．leave
C．meaningful
C．life
D．switch
D．cautious
D．feel
D．accidents
D．worry about
D．However
D．key
D．serve
D．carry
D．delighted
D．parents
D．in danger of
D．helpful
D．communicate
D．till
D．also
D．miss
D．healthy
D．confidence
He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock(闹钟). He tried
to shave(刮脸)quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he
had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing(熨), so he ironed it. While he
was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter(表). He showed him where the meter was, said good-bye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had
to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn"t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began
to read the newspaper.
In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi. When Harry"s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the
blood on Harry"s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o"clock in the afternoon before the police were sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about
four, his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job.
B. an unlucky day
C. a busy day
D. a good day
b. Harry ironed his shirt.
c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt.
d. There was a knock at the door.
e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it.
A. a, b, c, d, e
B. b, a, d, c, e
C. b, a, c, d, e
D. c, b, d, a, e
B. The only other needed ironing.
C. He had only one shirt.
D. He cut himself and got blood all over his shirt.
B. there was blood on his shirt and he was in a taxi
C. a man killed a woman with a knife
D. the murderer(***人犯)was seen to run away in a taxi
B. there was blood on his shirt
C. he was late for work
D. he had killed a woman
阅读理解
Ten years ago, Pierre Omidyar, a software engineer working in California’s Silicon Valley, began
thinking about how to use the internet for a trading system in which buyers and sellers could establish
a genuine market price. Over a long holiday weekend he wrote the computer code. At first, a trickle
of users arrived at his website-including his girlfriend, who traded PEZ candy dispensers. By the end
of 1995, several thousand auctions had been completed and interest in eBay was growing. And it grew
and grew. From this modest beginning, eBay has become a global giant, with around 150m registered
users worldwide who are set to buy and sell goods worth more than $40 billion this year.
The remarkable tale of eBay’s growth points to some important lessons for any business trying to
operate online-and today that includes, one way or another, most firms. The commercial opportunities
presented by an expanding global web seem almost limitless. But the pace of change is rapid, and so
is the ferocity（激烈）of competition. To succeed, firms need agility(灵活), an open mind and the
ability to reinvent themselves repeatedly. Most of all, they need to listen carefully to their customers,
paying close attention to what they do and don’t want.
Such qualities, of course, would be valuable in any kind of business. Yet for online firms they are
not a luxury, but necessary for mere survival. This is true for a variety of reasons. The internet is not
only growing, but changing rapidly-which, in turn, changes the rules of the game for any business
relying on it. The barriers to entry are still low compared with those for most offline businesses,
which means that just keeping track of your existing rivals is not enough. These may not represent the
greatest competitive threat tomorrow or the next day. That could come from a number of
directions-a firm in a different type of online business; one that does not yet exist; or even from one
of your own customers. On top of all this, the behavior of many consumers is constantly changing
as well, as individuals discover new ways to shop and interact with each other via the web.
All these factors make the internet a dangerous place to do business, as well as one full of
promise. eBay’s history demonstrates both of those things. It is probably safe to say that nothing
like eBay could have existed without the internet-or could have grown so fast. Even though there have
been signs of the firm’s blistering(快速的) pace slowing a bit in America, its most “mature” market,
there remain vast opportunities overseas, particularly, some argue, in China. Meg Whitman, eBay’s
chief executive, believes the company is still only at the beginning of what it could achieve.
1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To introduce the founder of eBay and his girlfriend.
B. To demonstrate how clever the founder of eBay is.
C. To show how eBay started and has grown.
D. To introduce eBay to people.
2. Which of the following best summarizes Pierre Omidyar’s intention with regard to eBay?
A. To set up a global internet business.
B. To allow people to freely buy and sell on the internet at acceptable prices.
C. To set up a mechanism on the internet to allow people to trade at true market prices.
D. To se up a business mechanism for his girlfriend.
3. Which of these is it NOT necessary for a company selling on the internet to do?
A. Have the most competitive price for each of their online products.
B. Be able to change to suit the prevailing（流行的，优势的）market conditions.
C. Be prepared to consider all options and alternatives.
D. Have a good idea of what their customers do not want.
4. What does “barriers to entry are still low compared with those for most offline businesses”
in paragraph 3 mean?
A. It is easier to set up an internet business than a conventional one.
B. Internet trade is growing faster than traditional business sector.
C. It is cheaper to set up an internet business than a traditional one.
D. Companies generally prefer to do business online rather than offline.
5. Why does the article conclude that the internet “is a dangerous place to do business”?
A. Because companies that sell online may be unreliable.
B. Because there are no controls on doing business on the internet.
C. Because doing business online is unpredictable.
D. Because even companies like eBay have problems doing business online.
I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures. Many People 1 （假装）that they understand
modern art. They always tell you what a picture is “about ” Of c 2 , many pictures are not “about ”
anything.They are just pretty patterns. We like them in the s 3 way that we like pretty curtain
4 （材料）. I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures 5 than anyone
else. They notice more. My sister is o 6 seven, but she always tells me 7 my pictures are
good or not. She came into my room yesterday. “What are you doing?” she asked. “I"m 8 （挂）
this picture on the wall, ” I answered. “It"s a new one. Do you like it? ” She looked at it critically for
a moment. “It"s all right,” she said, “but isn"t it upside 9 ?” I looked at it again. She was r 10 !
It was!
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