She is new here.She doesn't know the way to her（）.

In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last yes.

As a writer I know about winning contest, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again？ That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.

What did the author say about her own writing experience？

A) She did not quite live up to her reputation as a writer.

B) Her way to success was full of pains and frustrations.

C) She was constantly under pressure of writing more.

D) Most of her stories had been rejected by publishers.

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A．what was it

B．why it was that

C．how that was

D．what it was that

A.lives

B.would live

C.has live

D.were to live

-I'm looking for a birthday gift for my aunt, but I don't have the slightest idea.

-__________

一Do you know what her hobbies are？

A.She doesn't have a CD player.

B.Actually, she doesn't like to study with music.

C.She listens to music, collects butterflies, and is interested in photography. Maybe I'll get her a CD.

A. She doesn't have a CD player.

B. Actual1y , she doesn' t like to study with music.

C. She listens to music , collects butterflies , and is interested in photography. Maybe I'll get her a CD.

You’ve probably had that feeling. And you undoubtedly have heard the warning “Back up your data or else.” For Ms. Grove, the director of the Legacy Counseling Center, a nonprofit support organization in Dallas for people with AIDS, the story had a happy ending because she had backed up her data on a remote computer—what is commonly called “in the cloud.” With copies of everything, she could restore all her files.

A growing number of companies now offer these cloud-based backup services. Two of the best-known, Carbonite and Mozy, offer similar services with different prices, while Backblaze combines many of the services of Carbonite and Mozy. It offers unlimited backup for $5 a month per computer, and also backs up attached hard drives. If your computer’s drive crashes, you can either download the data or receive a DVD for $99 or hard drive by overnight mail for $189. Backblaze’s backup tool is one of the easiest to use: it just backs up all data files and once completed, backs up new files on a continual basis backups of deleted files, as with most services, are erased after 30 days.

6. Meliss Grove may lost her 7,000 Word documents, 600 spreadsheets and other files, because（）.

A. She isn’t careful about the files when she reads them

B. She doesn’t like these files

C. She didn’t know how to use a computer

D. Something wrong with the computer happened

7. What does the word “that feeling” in the second paragraph mean？（）

A.Melissa Grove is not happy because she lost her computer

B.She made a call to her friend and told them that she had lost her files

C.The experience that the PC is dead and the files may get lost

D.She doesn’t like her PC, because the PC

8. What do we know about the cloud-based backup services in America？（）

A.Only two companies, Carbonite and Mozy offer the services

B.Carbonite has better service than Mozy does

C.Backblaze combines many of the services of Carbonite and Mozy

D.Both A and B

9. What’s result of Ms. Grove’s files？（）

A.She lost all her files in the PC, because it’s dead

B.We have no idea about her files

C.She could restore all her files for the cloud backup

D.They were lost and couldn’t get restored

10. What does“in the cloud”mean？（）

A.It means that we can see a cloud when we use computers

B.It means distant devices that can backup the files

C.A kind of service that help people use PC

D.It’s going to rain if you see a cloud

Why does the narrator feel like a simpleton？

A.Because she is from countryside and doesn’t know much about city life

B.Because she has only focused on her study all her life

C.Because she is intimidated by Nina’s sophisticated experience

D.Because she is threatened by Nina’s money

——Do you know what her hobbies are？()

A.She doesn't have a CD player

B.Actually, she doesn't like to study with music

C.She listens to music, collects butterflies, and is interested in photographyMaybe I'11 get her a CD

Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The classic (1)_____ of a writer, for example, is (2)_____ a slightly crazy-looking person, (3)_____ in an attic, writing away furiously for days (4)_____ end. Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, (5)_____ which he could not produce a readable word.

Nowadays, we know that such images bear little (6)_____ to reality. But are they completely (7)_____？ In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not. Dame Muriel Spark, who (8)_____ 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical "writer". She is certainly not (9)_____, and she doesn't work in an attic. But she is rather particular (10)_____ the tools of her trade.

She insists on writing with a (11)_____ type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain stationer in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so (12)_____ is she that, if someone uses one of her pens by (13)_____, she immediately throws it away. And she claims she (14)_____ enormous difficulty writing in any notebook other than (15)_____ sold by James Thin. This could soon be a (16)_____, as the shop no longer stocks them, (17)_____ Dame Muriel's supply of 72-page spiral bound is nearly (18)_____.

As well as her "obsession" about writing materials, Muriel Spark (19)_____ one other characteristic with the stereotypical "writer": her work is the most (20)_____ thing in her life. It has stopped her from marrying; cost her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.

A．drawing

B．image

C．description

D．illustration