I （) here for almost 20 years.A: liveB: am livingC: have been living

”Here is the money I ________last month. Thank you.”

I almost forgot ________ you the money.”

A、Borrows; lend

B、Borrowed; to lend

C、Borrowed; lending

D、lent; to lend

E、lent; lending

A.I moved here from Paris

B.My whole life

C.I've worked here for almost 10 years

D.I've never traveled there

There was once an ant that was very thirsty.有一只蚂蚁很渴。

It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.

Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.

The ant drank the water, which saved its life.

The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.

The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.

"Why are you sad？" asked the ant.

"I'm the prisoner of a giant." the girl told the ant. "He won't let me go until I've made three separate heaps of grain, barley(大麦)and rye(黑麦)out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together."

"That will take you a month!" the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.

"I know," the girl cried, "and if I haven't finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!"

"Don't cry," the ant said, "my friends and I will help you."

Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.

The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.

Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.

(1)、The ant was playing when it ran here and there.

A：T

B：F

(2)、The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.

A：T

B：F

(3)、The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.

A：T

B：F

(4)、The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.

A：T

B：F

(5)、The ant's friends saved the girl's life.

A：T

B：F

er but could not find any.Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.The ant drank the water, which saved its life.The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying.Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.

The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.

“Why are you sad？” asked the ant.

“I'm the prisoner of a giant.”the girl told the ant.“He won't let me go until I've made three separate heaps of grain, barley(大麦)and rye(黑麦)out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.”

“That will take you a month!” the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.

“I know,”the girl cried, “and if I haven't finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!”

“Don't cry,”the ant said, “my friends and I will help you.”

Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.

The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.

Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.

6.The ant was playing when it ran here and there.()

A.T

B.F

7.The drop of water fell on the ant when it was nearly dying.()

A.T

B.F

8.The young girl was crying because she wanted to have supper.()

A.T

B.F

9.The giant would eat the girl if she failed to do the work.()

A.T

B.F

10.The ant's friends saved the girl's life.()

A.T

B.F

After a long journey from Quebec，Canada in l896，1 was finally in a small office in Kingston，Jamaica.Behind a long table piled with books and papers sat an old man，Mr.Campbell，my new employer and the owner of The Lantern. He stared at me so long，and with such an expression of amazement，that I became uneasy and embarrassed.And then at last a single sentence came from his lips, “My God!” It seems that he had expected a woman of the then approved type of bluestocking(女知识分子)，and now a baby had been dropped into his lap!

I sat alone with that old man who stared at me as if l were some person of a strange nature.After he had almost stared me down，he began to ask me questions.

“How old are you？”

“Seventeen.I mean—I’m going on eighteen.”Eighteen was，in fact，eleven months off.

‘‘Have you ever worked before？’’

“I’ve written things.’’

After a silent moment，during which he glared at me more angrily than ever, he demanded：

“What have you written？”

“Poetry, ” I said, and stopped because he said again in that lost voice，‘‘My God!”

“What else？”

“I had a story published in The Star,” I said. “I’ve got it here, if you’d like to see it.”

He made a motion of definite disagreement.

“I taught myself shorthand，’’I said，‘‘and I can take dictation as fast as you can talk.”

“Not a bad idea.” And then he added，“What do you think you are going to do here？”

“Write for your paper，”I said.

“What？”he inquired curiously.

“Why-anything-poetry-”

He waved his hand in such a dismissing manner that I got up, though it was my poetry, not I, he wished to be rid of just then. I went neaner to him and said, “I know you don’t want me an I don’t want to stay. I am dory I came.”

“What about the money I paid for you to came here？”he shouted. “I’m going to lose that？”

21.Mr.Campbell had expected_____.

A.an experienced nurse

B.all experienced journalist

C.a journalist with a baby

D.a young female secretary

22.The girl tried to impress the owner of the paper with_____.

A.her experience

B.her innocence

C.a younger age

D.an older age

23.Mr.Campbell showed some interest in the girl’s ability to_____.

A.compose poems

B.write stories

C.take dictation

D.travel alone

24.Based on the information provided in the passage，Mr.Campbell would probably _____.

A.give the girl the position

B.send the girl back to America

C.ask the girl to show him her poems

D.publish the girl’s poems and stones

25.On the whole，Mr.Campbell was_____.

A.pleased with his new employee

B.amazed by the girl’s literary talent

C.dissatisfied with the girl’s experience

D.angry with the rude manner of the girl

Passage Four

"Cool" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings.

"Cool" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, "It's cool. ' You may think, "He's so cool," when you see your favorite football player.

We all maximize (扩大) the meaning of "cool". You can use it instead of many words such as "new" or "surprising". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall (瀑布) they had visited. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, "It's so cool." Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.

But the story also shows a scarcity of words. Without "cool", some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility (可信性). Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word "cool"？ I can. And I think they are also very cool.

46. We know that the word "cool" has had______.

A. only one meaning

B. no meanings

C. the same meaning

D. many different meanings

ducts as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from "invisible earnings" to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only ＄285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional ＄375 million and this washes out the almost ＄400 million by which imports exceed exports.

It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus—＄66 million. Greece has a decent reserve of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.

In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don't mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece's problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of ＄60 to ＄70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countrysides, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here:

"Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points."

Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.

Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities, Tourism itself has jumped from approximately＄31 million to over ＄90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.

The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is ______.

A．Greek income and expenditures

B．The improving economic situation in Greece

C．The value of tourism

D．Military expenditures

A: I've come about your offer for bristles.

B: We have the offer ready for you． Let me see..． Here it is． 100 cases of Tsingtao Bristles, 57mm, at..． pounds sterling per kilogram, CIF European Main Ports, for shipment in June, 2009． The offer is valid for three days.

A: Why, your price has soared．It's almost 25 % higher than last year's． It would be impossible for us to push any sales at such a price.

B: I'm a little surprised to hear you say that． You know very well that market for bristles has gone up a great deal in recent months． The price we offer compares favourably with quotations you can get elsewhere.

A: I'm afraid I can't agree with you there． I must point out that your price is higher than some of the quotations we have received from other sources.

B: But you must take the quality into consideration． Everyone in the trade knows that China's bristles are of superior quality to those from other countries.

A: I agree that yours are of better quality． But there's competition from synthetic products, too． You can't ignore that prices for synthetic bristles haven't changed much over the years.

B: There's practically no substitute for bristles for certain uses． That's why demand for natural bristles keeps rising in spite of cheaper synthetic ones． To be frank with you, if it were not for the long-standing relationship between us, we would hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.

A: Well, we'll have a lot of difficulties in persuading our clients to buy at this price． But I'll have to try, I suppose.

There was once an ant that was very thirsty.

It ran here and there looking for some water but could not find any.

Then suddenly, when the ant was almost ready to die of thirst, a large drop of water fell on it.

The ant drank the water, which saved its life.

The water was actually a tear from a young girl who was crying. Because of her sadness, the tear had magical qualities and suddenly the ant could speak the language of human beings.

The ant looked up and saw the young girl sitting in front of a huge pile of seeds.

“Why are you sad？” asked the ant.

“I’m the prisoner of a giant.” the girl told the ant. “ He won’t let me go until I’ve made three separate heaps of grain, barley(大麦)and rye(黑麦)out of this huge pile of seeds in which they are all mixed together.”

“That will take you a month!” the ant said, looking at the huge pile of seeds.

“I know,” the girl cried, “and if I haven’t finished by tomorrow, the giant will eat me for his supper!”

“Don’t cry,” the ant said, “my friends and I will help you.”

Soon thousands of ants were at work, separating the three kinds of seeds.

The next morning, when the giant saw that the work had been done, he let the girl go.

Thus it was one of her tears that saved her life.

1. What is an ant？

A. A small animal.

B. An insect.

C. A bird

. D. A giant.

2. When did the drop of water fall on the ant？

A. When it was looking for food.

B. When it saved the ant’s life.

C. When it was nearly dying.

D. When it looked up.

3. Why was the young girl crying？

A. Because of her sadness.

B. Because she saw the ant.

C. Because the giant would let her go.

D. Because the giant had given her an impossible job to do.

4. What would the giant do if the girl failed to do the work？

A. He would eat her.

B. He would let her go.

C. He would take her away.

D. He would send her to prison.

5. Who or what saved the girl’s life？

A. The giant

B. The ant

C. The ant’s friends

D. Her tears