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A man named Simon Black from California had a tool that could start up cars made in Japan easily. It is said that he had stolen many cars.
One day he was caught at the scene as he was stealing the 27th car. The young man told the police that he did this just for a girl he loved.
Simon Black was very poor, but he had a very beautiful girlfriend. He didn't want her to know he was poor, so he made up his mind to steal a car. For the first time, he was successful and drove it to see her. She was very excited about "his" wonderful car. From then on, every time he visited her, he would drive a different car.
It was just for love! Sometimes love can make a man mad! This time when the owner of the car found Simon trying to steal his car, he called the police at once.
After knowing this, Simon's girlfriend told the police that she was going to leave him. She wasn't willing to have a boyfriend with a criminal record.
1．Simon Black was good at stealing cars made in_________

A．England

B．France

C．America

D．Japan

2．How many cars did Simon Black succeed in stealing?

A．27.

B．26.

C．36.

D．37.

3．Why did Simon Black steal a car at first?

A．Because his girlfriend needed money.

B．Because his father asked him to do so.

C．Because he wanted to give the car to his girlfriend.

D．Because he didn't want to let his girlfriend know he was poor.

4．How did Simon Black's girlfriend feel when she first saw "his" car?

A．She was very frightened.	B．She was very excited.
C．She was curious about it.	D．She was very angry.

5．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．The police would not arrest Simon because he didn't break the law.

B．It was stupid of Simon to steal cars and make himself guilty.

C．Simon's girlfriend would love him much more than before in the future.

D．Love can make everyone mad.

We use a dictionary for two main reasons: to find out how to spell a word and to find out the meaning of a word.

All the words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order (按字母顺序). If the first letter of a word is “a”, you can find the word at the front of the dictionary. And you will find the word at the end of the dictionary if its first letter is “z”.

The second letter of a word is also important. For example, the word “act” comes before the word “ant”. This is because the letter “c” comes before the letter “n” in the alphabet. For the same reason the word “bag” comes before the word “bat”. This is because the letter “g” comes before the letter “t” in the alphabet.

If you do not know the alphabet, you cannot use a dictionary, because you may not know how to find words.

One of the most famous dictionaries in the world is Oxford English Dictionary. It gives the meanings and spellings of English words. Most dictionaries do not have every word.

1．What are the reasons for using a dictionary?

A．To find out how to spell a word only.

B．To find out how to spell a word and the meaning of a word.

C．To learn the alphabet and to find out how to spell a word.

D．To learn the alphabet and to find out the meaning of a word.

2．If the first letter of a word is “________ ”, you can find it at the front of a dictionary.

A．t

B．n

C．a

D．z

3．Which letter in the word can affect (影响) its place in a dictionary?

A．Only the first two letters.	B．Only the first three letters.
C．All the letters.	D．None of the letters.

4．Which of the following is in alphabetical order?

A．begin, being, bench, bend	B．bend, bench, begin, being
C．bench, bend, being, begin	D．begin, being, bend, bench

5．What is the main idea of the passage?

A．The reasons for using the dictionary.	B．The importance of learning the alphabet.
C．The most famous dictionary in the world.	D．The way to use the dictionary.

在录音中，你将听到一篇短文，短文后有五个小题，从每小题A、B、C中选出能回答所给问题的正确答案。短文读两遍。（听短文前，你将有40秒的读题时间；听完后，你将有40秒的答题时间）
1．How can visitors travel around the zoo?

A．On foot.

B．By bike.

C．By tour train.

2．Where can visitors see the short film about the zoo?

A．In the Visitor Center.

B．In the dinning room.

C．In different places.

3．What’s people’s favorite show there?

A．The bear show.

B．The monkey show.

C．The elephant show.

4．How much does the most popular show cost for an adult (成人) and a kid?

A．80 yuan.

B．120 yuan.

C．160 yuan.

5．In which month is the zoo closed?

A．February.

B．March.

C．September.

一Do you know ________________________?
一Next Wednesday.

A．when will the winter vacation start	B．when the winter vacation will start
C．when did the winter vacation start	D．when the winter vacation started

Fluency in another language is a dream of a newcomer to another country. Besides, understanding the culture and learning to communicate comfortably with people of that culture are as important as learning the rules of the language. Language learning and culture learning go together and may take a long time.

Sometimes people feel that they understand a culture after a few weeks or months. People do learn a lot when they first begin living in another culture, but this is only the first step of learning. It usually involves things like learning everyday activities and some basic customs.

To really understand another culture, people have to go beyond the first step. This is a challenge because it is often difficult to know what to learn. Much of what we call"culture" is hard to see.

Culture is like an iceberg. Imagine in your mind a huge iceberg in the ocean. The only part of the iceberg that you see is the top. You don't see the rest of the iceberg because it is hidden from sight in the water. It is easy to forget that it is there. Most of the iceberg is deep in the ocean, just as much of a culture is deep in the ocean, just as much of a culture is deep within its people.

When you meet someone from another culture, certain culture differences are obvious: You hear another language or you hear your own language spoken with an accent. You see different foods, clothes and sometimes physical characteristics of people. You watch new customs or habits, such as the use of chopsticks, and, bowing or kissing on both cheeks as a greeting. These differences are interesting and important, but they are usually not too difficult to understand. They can be seen easily and quickly.

The part of culture that is like the underwater part of the iceberg consists of assumptions (设想)， communication styles, values, and beliefs about what is right and wrong. The hidden part of culture influences much of a person’s way of thinking and communicating. It is the meaning behind his or her verbal and nonverbal language. Learning to communicate well with people from another culture involves understanding the hidden part of culture.

1．To really understand another culture, people should       .

A．learn the rules of language	B．learn the hidden culture
C．visit some local people	D．live with some local people

2．Which of the following does the writer agree?

A．Communication styles can be easily seen and learned

B．Language learning is more important than culture learning

C．Learning about culture is not easy and may take a long time

D．People usually learn a culture after a few weeks or months.

3．The passage is mainly about           .

A．learning about culture.	B．learning about people
C．the hidden part of the iceberg	D．fluency in another language

Peter took a trip to Shenzhen during this summer holiday. One night, He stayed in the hotel. All the rooms in this hotel were single (单间的). Suddenly, Peter heard someone knocking (敲) at the door when he was watching TV. Then he opened the door and saw a man standing outside. He didn’t know the man at all. The man said to Peter, “I am so sorry, sir! I made a mistake and I thought this was my room.” Then he left. Peter closed the door and thought the man must be a thief (小偷). So he called the policeman at once. The policeman caught the man in the room next to Peter after a while.

The policeman asked Peter, “Did you see that man go into the room next to you?”

“No, he didn’t go into the room when I saw him,” answered Peter.

“But how do you know he is a thief?”

“All the rooms are single in the hotel. The man tries knocking at the door and wants to know whether there is someone in the room. If there is no one in it, he will go in the room. So he must be a thief, I think,” Peter said.

1．Who was the thief in the passage?

A．Peter.

B．The man.

C．The policeman.

D．Peter’s friend.

2．Where did the policeman catch the thief?

A．In another hotel.

B．Outside the door.

C．In Peter’s room.

D．In the room next to Peter’s.

3．What was Peter doing when the man knocked at the door?

A．He was talking with a man.	B．He was standing at the door.
C．He was watching TV.	D．He was reading the newspaper.

4．Why did the man knock at the door of Peter’s room?

A．Because he wanted to visit Peter.

B．Because he wanted to know whether there was someone in the room.

C．Because he thought it was his room.

D．Because he wanted to get the money back from Peter’s room.

5．What can we know from the passage?

A．Peter knew the man.

B．There was no one in the room next to Peter’s.

C．The room next to Peter’s was the man’s room.

D．Some of the rooms were single but some were not.

----Must I do it at once?
----No,you ____________.

A．you can’t

B．mustn’t

C．needn’t

D．haven’to

Thirty years ago, I walked into a bakery and asked for some bread to sell. At that time, I was 12 years old. 1． She gave five loaves of bread and wished me good luck.

I took the bread and went out to sell them. It took me all day, but I sold them all. 2． I was the happiest boy in the world as I walked home that evening.

The next day, I went to a bicycle shop. I paid a deposit (定金) on a new bicycle. And then I started my job as a newspaper delivery boy. Soon I could pay the rest of the money for the bicycle and the bike was mine. 3．

Today I still work in the delivery business. I have a lot of trucks to send goods all over the country. I live in a beautiful house, but I don’t ride a bicycle these days. I drive a large and nice car.

4． But because she gave me the start, I have become a successful man. I’d like to show my thanks to her.

A．I wanted to make money.

B．I was so proud of myself.

C．A young lady served me that day.

D．I don’t know who that young lady was.

E．At the end of the day, I had some money.

Most of us fear failure. However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success comes from the Latin succedere, meaning “to come after”. And what does success usually come after? Failure. It seems that one cannot exist without the other.

        Every failure-even the worst ones-helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete Athans, who has now reached the world’s highest peak (山峰) seven times.
        Failure   also   reminds   us   that   things   can   go   wrong-sometimes   with   terrible   results. Austrian   Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8, 000-meter peaks without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche (雪崩). She survived, but two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is, bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.
        Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some scientific magazines-mostly in medicine-have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science community can also learn from “negative’ results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.
        The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure parties to study data about medicine that doesn't work.
        In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s CEO,
        Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.
        The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.
1．The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to ________.

A．show how bad things can become important lessons

B．tell us that it's possible for anyone to be successful

C．prove how bad things can happen in any situation

D．teach us what not to do when climbing mountains

2．The underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A．unable

B．unsure

C．unwilling

D．uninterested

3．What is the passage mainly about? ________

A．An attitude towards failure.	B．The experience of success.
C．A difficult way to success.	D．The rewards of failure.

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