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I met the guy who told me an amazing story.He was 1 Scotland on a motorbike by himself.One late afternoon he was on the road between Aberdeen and Elgin.He was travelling along, miles from any village, when he saw a really 2 girl standing by the road, hitchhiking (搭便车).Anyway, he stopped and said he would give her a 3 to Elgin.She got and drove off.He said he 4 having her on the back, as it was nice 5 .But after a time he forgot that she was there.Suddenly he 6 but he realized that he couldn’t feel her knees 7 against him ! He 8 behind him but …she wasn’t there.
He said he felt frightened 9 his life ! He felt cold all over.He thought she must have 10 off the back.So he turned round and 11 back along the road.He didn’t find her.So he began to think that she might have been 12 by someone else.
Anyway, he drove on towards Elgin and didn’t see anyone 13 he came to a pub.He decided to 14 so that he could talk to someone and he thought he ought to tell 15 .He went into the pub and talked to the barman.He told the barman what had happened.He said the barman didn’t seem to be at all 16 .He just carried on 17 the glasses.
Then the barman said, “you are not the 18 person to come in here and tell the same 19 .That girl you think you picked up 20 seven years ago… in a motorbike accident.”
1.A.touring B.searching C.defending D.circling
2.A.poor B.attractive C.tall D.terrible
3.A.help B.lift C.service D.trip
4.A.chose B.came C.meant D.liked
5.A.business B.event C.company D.action
6.A.thought B.considered C.remembered D.called
7.A.pressing B.turning C.going D.running
8.A.looked B.took C.felt D.seized
9.A.out of B.in case of C.in place of D.to the best of
10.A.jumped B.kept C.kicked D.fallen
11.A.raced B.walked C.got D.watched
12.A.picked up B.searched for C.taken away D.brought back
13.A.when B.until C.although D.since
14.A.wait B.enter C.stop D.march
15.A.someone B.nobody C.the father D.the police
16.A.worried B.surprised C.moving D.satisfied
17.A.breaking B.waving C.knocking D.drying
18.A.first B.last C.right D.honest
19.A.story B.message C.lie D.truth
20.A.was saved B.ran away C.died D.left
1.A。由第二行的He was travelling along可知。
2.B。由as it was nice company 可知。
3.B。由when he saw a really 37 girl standing by the road, hitchhiking (搭便车) 推断。
4.D。由后面as it was nice company 表示原因，可推断他愿意带她。
5.C。company 意思为“同伴”。
6.C。根据上下文可知他想起了他的车后还带着个人。
7.A。他的车后还带着个人，但他没有感觉到她的膝盖挤压他。press…against 意思为“将…压在…上” 。
8.C。表示“感觉”。可调语序“ but he felt she wasn’t there behind him”。
9.A。由于没有感觉到人在，所以“吓得要命” 。
10.D。人不在车后，他认为她从车上掉下去了。
11.C。表示他掉转车头，沿着这条公路返回去找她。
12.A。结果没有找到，所以他认为她可能被其他人接走了。
13.B。他一直找到一家咖啡馆，在路上也没遇到一个人。
14.C。表示停下来在咖啡馆理找人谈谈。从后文He went into the pub and talked to the barman 。
15.A。他认为他也应该告诉其他人。从后文He told the barman what had happened.
16.B。从开咖啡馆人的答语“That girl you think you picked up died seven years ago … in a motorbike accident.”可知，他并不感到惊讶。
17.D。开咖啡馆人并不惊讶，他只是继续擦干他的杯子。
18.A。开咖啡馆人并不惊讶，因为他不只一次听这同样的故事。
19.A。
20.C。我感到很离奇，但开咖啡馆人并不惊讶 。
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(A)
New band rocks
“轻松玩”音乐，快乐唱摇滚！
Imagine what you will be doing in seven years. Are you getting your first job or just studying in another country?
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When the Taiwan band Relax One (轻松玩) was formed in 1998, they wanted to release their own albums. And now they have.
When the four group members came to the mainland to promote their first album "I Want Relax One", they told Teens how they made their dream come true.
Guitarist Xiaomao set up his own music studio when he was only 17 after he graduated from Danjiang High School. This is the same high school from which other stars graduated, including Jay Chou and Monster from Mayday.
"It doesn't mean you are a loser simply because you don't like school," Xiaomao believed. He had a good time hanging around with music lovers. Then he met drummer A-kui , who was rather rebellious at that time.
Both A-kui's parents are high school teachers. Born in such a family meant few choices for him- going to a good university and finding a decent (体面的) job seemed to be his future. A-kui was already on that road, being a top student in one of the top high schools in Taiwan.
"But I didn't want to be planned," said A-kui. He took up drumming. The reason that he didn't choose guitar or bass was simply that they were too costly.
"To learn to play drums, all you need is a pair of drumsticks," A-kui said with a smile. "My family didn't want me to do music so I didn't have the money to buy a guitar."
Xiaorenguo was A-kui's fellow student in Alethia University, majoring in information management. Being infected by A-kui's enthusiasm for music, he began playing bass (贝司).
They formed a band. Parents' objections, financial pressure and changing of band members - nothing stopped their dream.
And then lead vocalist (主唱) Summer, who now writes all the songs, joined in 1998.
Summer loved singing when she was a kid. After graduating from Fu Jen University, she began her exploration of music.
Her voice and talent for writing songs were acknowledged (得到承认) before she joined the band. She had written songs for other singers, such as China Dolls (中国娃娃). Some producers even tried to persuade her to develop a career on her own.
But Summer insisted on staying with the band. "We are like a family," Summer explained.
1.Guitarist Xiaomao thinks that ________________________.
A.teenagers must be good at study at school.
B.one can succeed in other areas even though he doesn't like studying
C.one will be able to play music only after graduation from high school
D.Music lovers are all at the age of about 17
解析：B。根据“It doesn't mean you are a loser simply because you don't like school,”可知，小毛认为，你不喜欢上学并不意味着你是失败者。也就是说，你在其它方面也许会成功。
2.When A-Kui said "But I didn't want to be planned.",he meant that ______________.
A.he didn't like to do things as planned B.he didn't like to take up what his parents wished him to
C.he liked to hang about in the street D.he hadn't planned what he would be
解析：B。理解这句话，应该联系前文所说的情况。阿贵的父母希望他上名牌大学，找一份体面的职业，而他没有这样做，做了乐队鼓手。
3.A-Kui took up drumming because _____________.
A.He loved it very much B.He was good at it
C.He had learned how to play drums D.he couldn't afford to buy expensive instruments.
解析：D。根据“The reason that he didn't choose guitar or bass was simply that they were too costly.”可知。
4.Band Relax One met a lot problems in its development except _____________.
A.their parents' objections B.financial pressures
C.lack of musical knowledge D.changing of the band members
解析：C。根据“Parents' objections, financial pressure and changing of band members - nothing stopped their dream”可知，当时他们的父母反对，资金紧张，乐队队员频繁变动。
5.The attitude of the writer toward Band Relax One is _____________.
A.supportive B.objective C.negative D.neutral
解析：A。根据作者在文章中的语气可知他对于Band Relax One持赞承态度。
(B)
Stanley Fields, who wrote “Sad, Sad Cowboy”, which won this year’s Philip’s Prize as the best song of the year, might have had a very different job if his parents had had their way.
In an interview, Fields said, “When I was a child, my father always told me I should put down my guitar and do my homework. He wanted me to go to college and become a teacher as he and his brother were.”
Fields explained that he made a great effort to please his father, but often his love of music became too great and he would steal into a garden behind his house and play his guitar and make up song.
“I made it to Stanton College,” he laughed,“but I took accounting（会计）instead of teaching. And to pay my own way, I played the guitar and sang at a local nightclub.”
While fields was still in his senior year（大学四年级）, an executive（总裁）of a record company came into the club as he was singing one of his own songs. The executive liked what he heard and signed the man to a contract（合同）.
Since graduating from Stanton College in 1973, Fields has spent his full time writing and singing songs. “My Heartache,”a song he wrote while in college, reached number seventeen in the top twenty hit songs of 1974 and in 1977 his song “Rambling”was the song for the movie of the same name.
1.According to the passage, Stanley Fields’__________.
A.parents were teachers B.mother and brother were teachers
C.father and uncle were teachers D.aunt and uncle were teachers
解析：C。由第二段中的“He wanted me to go to college and become a teacher as he and his brother were”可知答案。
2.From this passage, we can learn that Fields_________.
A.wrote no songs before entering college B.made up songs before entering college
C.began writing songs after attending college D.had songs published before attending college
解析：B。由第三、四两段可知Fields在进入Stanton大学前就已偷偷地在“play his guitar and make up songs”了。
3.The underlined phrase “had their way” in Paragraph 1 most probably means“_______”.
A.done as they wished B.found their way of punishing Fields
C.made conditions easy for Fields’ future D.prevented Fields from going to college
解析：A。如果按父母的想法去做的话，Fields可能在从事另外一种职业。
4.What do you know about “My Heartache”?
A.It was a very popular song. B.It was a song for the movie of the same name.
C.Fields’ heart was badly hit by someone. D.Fields’ heart ached when he graduated.
解析：A。由最后一段可知“My Heartache”是Fields写的一首歌曲，该歌曲名列1974年最佳排行榜第十七名。
(C)
Before I came to China, I had heard that ,although North Americans eat more than Chinese ,Chinese eat better .Since I have come to China ,I have been able to experience these differences first-hand.A whole new world of food has been opened up to me .
Along with these new experiences came the quite unexpected introduction to the rituals (惯例)associated with eating .For example,shortly after arriving ,I was gently criticized for filling somebody’s teacup all the way up instead of half way. This was a signal to the person that I desired that he leave.
There may be mixed messages about what it means when you do something associated with food. But the fact is that there may be a message contained in the preparation ,serving and consumption(吃喝)of food in China. This was an idea that was totally new to me !
More than one Chinese has made the comment to me that they were unhappy with the results of inviting a foreigner to a meal .They told me that the foreigner was not appreciative of the meal that was served to him or her and was hard to please .
Having played the part of the foreigner at more than one Chinese buffet, I can understand where the misunderstandings come from .I myself have felt very uncomfortable during some of the dinners I have been invited to .
One time I was invited to a dinner in a famous restaurant in Tianjin. Its menu was based on seafood .I was still relatively new to the concept that your fish would be brought live to your table .In Canada you are never introduced to your meal before hand .Something we don’t like is considering what our food looks like before that actual consumption.
However ,having been in China for one year, I went along and helped point out some of the selections for the evening’s meal .I hesitated at the scorpions(蝎子),but swallowed my distaste and indeed found later that they were tasty.
The meal was winding its way along without any problems .Then they brought out the lobster(龙虾). I looked at it and then looked at it again and noticed that it was still moving !It had been brought out live to show that our raw lobster was indeed very fresh.
At that point ,I nearly lost it .It took all of my composure(镇定)for me to stay seated at the table and not hurl(冲进)myself in the bathroom and bring up the contents of the previous dishes.
Now the interesting thing is that when I tell that story to a foreigner ,the reaction is always the same : Horror ,sympathy ,shock .When I tell the same story to a Chinese ,they don’t understand my point of view .In fact ,I often think that they believe that there is something truly wrong with me and not with the fact that a lobster had been served live at the table.
1.According to the author of the passage ,it is the Chinese custom_____________.
A.to fill somebody’s teacup all the way up B.not to fill somebody’s teacup full
C.not to fill somebody’s teacup half way D.not to desire the guest to leave
解析：B。细节理解题,根据“I was gently criticized for filling somebody’s teacup all the way up instead of half way.”可知,作者不熟悉中国的饮食风俗,给客人的茶杯填得满满的,而不是填一半,并因此受到和善的批评,由此可知按照中国的风俗,不应该往茶杯中填满茶水。
2.The author felt very uncomfortable during some of the dinners because____________.
A.she disliked scorpions and lobster
B.the services in the restaurants were not good enough
C.she disliked that the things were brought live to the table
D.she thought the food was not fresh enough
解析：C。细节理解题。根据第六段和第八段的介绍,作者作为一位加拿大人,对宴席上的活鱼、活龙虾感到很不舒服,尤其是当作者看到龙虾在盘中还在扭动时,已不能再保持镇定自若了,冲进盥洗室吐出了刚刚吃过的东西。选项A不是最佳选项,一是因为作者起初对于吃蝎子还在犹豫不决,但吃过之后则认为很好吃,这说明作者还是喜欢吃蝎子的;文中介绍作者不是不喜欢吃龙吓,只是不喜欢吃活龙虾。选项B在文中并没有涉及到。一些海鲜之所以活生生地上了餐桌就是表明这是新鲜的,所以选项D欠妥当。
3.It can be inferred from the last paragraph of the passage that______________.
A.the author can get support from foreigners
B.Chinese don’t understand the author’s point of view
C.something is truly wrong with the author
D.different countries may have different rituals of consumption
解析：D。作者认为中国的饮食习惯不可理解,而他向中国人表达自己的感受时,他们同样不理解作者,而认为作者有什么不对的地方,并不是餐桌上的活龙虾。这表明每个国家的饮食风俗不同,以致于会造成彼此的误解。
4.The word “buffet” in the fifth paragraph most probably means____________.
A.meal B.party C.food D.service
解析：A。作者在后文中的叙述都是有关在中国吃饭时的情景,所以buffet最可能的意思是“meal”。party不可接受,因为party不一定与“吃饭”有关系。
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Just a note to say how exciting I am about 1._____
coming to stay with you for three weeks. I' m really 2._____
looking forward meeting your family and I was 3._____
wondering if you could tell me a bit of about them 4._____
--just to put me in the picture. I' m sure your day 5._____
will be organized rather differently from me in my 6._____
own country -- is there everything I should know 7._____
in advance? Oh, other thing- I don't know 8._____
whether you have any trips planned so let me 9._____
know if I need to bring anything specially with me. 10._____
1.exciting改为excited。此句意思是:仅此便条,表达一下我为与你将在一起相处三周而是多么得兴奋。excited 表示I的心情;exciting表示给别人的心情。
2.正确。
3.forward后面加to。look forward to是习语,表示“盼望……”。
4.去掉of。a bit修饰名词时加of。如:a bit of food。做状语时不需要of。
5.day改为days。此处表示“一天一天的生活”,用复数形式。
6.me改为mine。mine意指my days。
7.everything改为anything。疑问句和否定句中用any或any构成的词;everything常用于肯定句中。
8.在other前加one。one other thing意为“另外一件事”。也可把other改为another,表示同样的意思。
9.so改为but。前后部分是转折关系。意为“我不知道你做了旅游计划没有,但是要让我知道是否该随身带些专用的东西。”
10.specially改为special。anything是不定代词,有定语修饰时，该定语要后置。
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阅读下列材料，以“Why is fantasy literature so popular with young people?”为题写一篇短文。
词数：100左右。
| 现 状 | 原 因 | 建 议 |
| 许多年轻人喜欢科幻文学，他们阅读科幻文学时往往忘记吃饭、睡觉。 | 科幻文学情节曲折，能够吸引年轻人。 | 适量阅读一些科幻文学，但不要沉溺其中，以免不适应现实生活。 |
| 科幻文学生动有趣，富于教育意义，容易感动年轻人。 | ||
| 科幻文学往往描绘年轻人在现实生活中无法实现的事情，对年轻人理想的实现是一个弥补。 |
Why is fantasy literature so popular with young people?
参考范文：
Why is fantasy literature so popular with young people?
At present many young people like to read fantasy literature. When they read some fantasy literature, they often forget to eat and sleep.
Why is fantasy literature so popular with young people? Here are some main reasons. First, the plot of fantasy literature is usually indirect and thrilling. So it can attract young people. At the same time, fantasy literature is usually lively, interesting and instructive. As a result, it can easily move young people. Besides, fantasy literature usually describes something that young people can't do in real life, so it makes up for the realization of young people's dreams.
It is useful to read a proper amount of fantasy literature, but don't become addicted to it or you may not adapt yourself to reality.