I find the article difficult__________A.to understandB.to be understoodC

A.surprised; bored

B.surprising; boring

C.surprised; boring

D.surprising; bored

I was __________to find his article on such an __________topic so __________

A.surprised．．．excited．．．bored

B.surprising．．．exciting．．．boring

C.surprised．．．exciting．．．boring

D.surprising．．．excited．．．bored

I was ______ to find his article on such an ______ topic so ______.

A．surprised…excited…bored

B．surprising…exciting…boring

C．surprised…exciting…boring

D．surprising…excited…bored

corner I decide it might be a good idea to collect tricks on how to wake up early for school. Whether you are a student or a happy parent, I hope your advice will work for me. Welcome you to share your own tricks on how you wake up(or help your kids wake up)early for school!" Advice 1: One of the rules I put into place for my experiment was the rule that I could not use the snooze button, ever! When you hit the snooze on your alarm you are allowing your mind to wake up gradually. This may slow down your productivity and energy… Advice 2: This smart simple tip was found in the list of 52 Proven Stress Reducers. What this tip means is that first of all you need at least two alarm clocks. You will be using one alarm clock in a usual way — for waking yourself up in the morning. But you will set another alarm clock for the time when you have to go to bed. Advice 3: There is another great self-improvement tip which some people often neglect and which you can use to advance in any area and not just to learn how to wake yourself up early in the morning. And the tip is simple: get a dog, it will help you to wake up early. Advice 4: How to wake yourself up in the morning？ Get a pet to do it？ Okay, getting a pet BECAUSE you want to wake up early is a wrong thing. Do not do it. Never ever get a pet unless you love pets and unless you know you can take care of them. Pets are like kids — if you get one, you will have full responsibility for its health and life. Advice 5: We continue our quest to find the best ways on how to wake up early in the morning and do it consistently. If you search the web for "how to wake up early" or "alarm clocks" keywords combination you will definitely find Vincent Cheungs article Alarm clocks are bad and how to wake up and feel better. This article has got almost 3, 000 tips and a number of links for a reason. It includes the trick on how to wake up early that Vincent has successfully used for years and now shares with the readers of his blog.

The blogger is probably a______.

A．parent of a school student

B．student

C．teacher

D．job holder

Passage Two

One day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to New York and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down."

"If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket."

"I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so."

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do？'

"We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not."

"So when it goes down, you go down with it."

"That's good, sir. '

"How long will the computer be down？" I wanted to know.

"I have no idea. There's no way we can find out without asking the computer."

After the girl told me they had no backup (备用) computer, I said. "Let's forget the computer. What about your planes？ They're still flying, aren't they？"

"I wouldn't know," she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only 'IT'knows. 'It'can't tell me.

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

36. The best title for the article is______.

A. When the Computer Is Down

B. How to buy a ticket

C. The Computer of the Airport

D. Asking the Computer

A. Skimming

B. Identifying and understanding argument

C. Identifying attitudes and making inferences

D. Scanning

Remember the Stone Age days of research back in elementary school and middle school？ We would spend countless hours digesting the information we could find on index cards. Do you recall using those ancient com- puters that ran with the Gopher program or some generic database whose name connoted a marmot that could take half an hour to find Moby Dick？

Well, all I have to say can be summed up in five words: Thank God For The Internet! Screw going to the library! I have access to dozens of databases, journals, and collections of literature right at my fingertips. I can complete all of my research at home and no longer must run amok in the library, stressing out while trying to find Shakespeare’s The Tempest or some other book, all the while trying to block out the noisy study groups who have forgotten what the "silence policy of libraries" means.

If you recall the flood epidemic that hit Colorado State University just a couple summers ago, that natural disaster wreaked havoc all over campus. A large portion of journals and texts were located in our libraries' basement which completely filled up with about 10 feet of rain water in a matter of hours.

The Lory Student Center’s basement was also flooded and that was where the university bookstore was lo- cated. This forced almost every professor to order new textbooks and that really put a dent in our wallets. Many students here, myself included, still have to face the disappointment of searching for a particular book or journal for a last minute paper, only to find out that the certain item was a casualty of the flood.

Thanks to the Internet, the university implemented the Inter-Library Loan system. Several universities around Colorado have generously aided us in our research endeavors by loaning any resource we need for at least two to three weeks. All we have to do is type in a request and five other university libraries automatically search for that information.

Without this program, I may have failed several papers and projects. I would have had to spend my nights running from public library to public library around the state just to find a certain article or novel. The World Wide Web has also given us the capability to order any textbook at a much lower price than the university bookstores charge. Hey, we're all college students and we're usually broke, so anytime we can find a deal or discount that will save us a few bucks, we will gladly take it.

And last but not least, for those of us who are constantly homesick, have a special someone far away or still want to keep in touch with pals, we have e-mail. Like most of you, I moved away from home to go to school and my high school friends spread out across the globe. Instead of wasting money on stationery and envelopes and stamps (which seem to increase in price about every year), I can chat with everyone through the Internet. Plus, scanning has allowed us to send pictures to our sweethearts, friends, and family who have forgot- ten what we look like. So, I’m asking everyone to get on their hands and knees and to pay homage to the telecommunications god, the Internet.

The word "havoc" in the third paragraph means

A．great concern.

B．widespread horror.

C．long-lasting influence.

D．great damage or destruction.

s to pursue further study. Both have advantages and disadvantages, and it is difficult to say which is better. Which choice is more suitable for you？

You should write no less than 250 words. Write your article on ANSWER SHEET 2.

ublic and the money made helps that charity to continue its valuable work. Charity shops are usually run by volunteers, people giving their time voluntarily to help the charity. Shopping in charity shops has many benefits, for the charity, and for the shopper! I like buying things in charity shops for many reasons which I am going to share with you. Firstly, items sold in charity shops are generally a lot cheaper than in high street stores. Yes, this is because they are used, but, having volunteered in a charity shop myself, I know that only really good quality items get put out to sell to the public. You can always find a bargain in a charity shop, from a new top to a pair of shoes, a handbag to a piece of jewellery. Secondly, if a charity shop has a lot of donations coming in, they generally change the stock on a daily basis, which means that there is always a variety of items to choose from. I’m always impressed that I can go into the same charity shop two days in a row and some of the stock will have been changed. Thirdly, you can find interesting treasures in charity shops. Especially when it comes to bric-a-brac items. There was once a very old fashioned sewing machine donated to the charity shop I volunteered in, and it was worth quite a bit of money, but it was sold the same day for five pounds! You will be very surprised with what you can find. Finally, knowing that the money you are spending in charity shops is going to a good cause is a great reason to shop there. There are many charities in the UK which rely on charity shops to fund what they do. The main ones in the UK are Sue Ryder Care which need money to keep their homes open, Cancer Research UK, the RSPCA and Oxfam. I would recommend shopping in charity shops, even very occasionally, because you never know how big a difference buying one small thing might make!

(1)Charity shops in the UK are run in the same way as other shops.

(2)The author of the article loves shopping in charity shops because she was short of money.

(3)Since the items in charity shops are usually used, they are no good.

(4)Charity shops in the UK get funds from the government.

(5)The author suggests people go shopping in charity shops to make a difference.

The purpose of writing this article is______.

A．to show the inadequacies of the judicial system in the United States

B．to compare different suggestions

C．to find the advantages and disadvantages of the judicial system in the United States

D．to discuss the methods of ameliorating the judicial system in the United States