The law has a great many rules, showing when and how far a man is to be punished, or if he should be made to hand over money or property to his neighbors, and so on. These rules are contained in books. A lawyer learns them mainly by reading books.

He begins by doing little else than reading, and after he has prepared himself by three years’ study, still, he has to, almost every day, read more about some new questions which he has to answer.

The power to use books, then, is a special skill which a would-be lawyer ought to possess. He ought to have enough flexibility（灵活性）to make it easy for him to collect ideas from printed words. He ought to have some readiness to find what a book contains, and something of an instinct（直觉）for where to look for what he wants.

But although this is the power which he will first feel in need of, it is not the most important. A lawyer does not study law to recite it; he studies it to use it and act upon the rules which he has learned in real life. His business is to try cases in court and to advise people what to do in order to keep out or get out of trouble.

1.The first thing a law student has to do is to _______.

A．read books                            B．hand over money

C．practice law                            D．answer questions

2.The major business of a lawyer is ________.

A．to discuss the material he has read

B．to advise people who have law problems

C．to learn about real life

D．to study the law

3.What is the most important to a lawyer?

A．To possess a lot of books.

B．To have enough flexibility when collecting ideas from printed words.

C．To be able to quickly find out what a book contains.

D．To be able to use his book knowledge in the right way in his future business.

4.According to the passage, a good lawyer should know how to ________.

A．understand and use what he reads

B．be effective in everything

C．collect ideas from different sources

D．be effective in court

Just as the English language has changed quickly in the previous century, so has the use of it.

After the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was founded in 1927, the particular style of speech of the BBC announcers was recognized as standard English or Received Pronunciation (RP) English. Now, most people still consider that the pronunciation and delivery of BBC announcers is the clearest and most understandable spoken English.

English has had a strong relationship with classes and social positions. However, since the Second World War there has been a clear change of attitude towards speech snobbery(自我优越感), and marks of class distinction(区别) such as styles of speech have been gradually diminishing, especially in the younger generation.

By the end of the 1960s, it had become clear that it was not necessary to speak standard English or even correct grammar to become popular, successful and rich. The fashionable speech of the day was no longer the special right of a special class but rather a defiant(反抗的) expression of classlessness.

The greatest single influence of the shaping of the English language in modern times is the American English. Over the last 25 years the English used by many people, particularly by those in the media, advertising and show business, has become more and more mid-Atlantic in style, delivery and accent.

In the 1970s, fashion favored careless pronunciation and a language full of jargon, slang and “in” words, a great quantity of which couldn’t be understood by the outside world. What is considered modern and fashionable in Britain today is often not the kind of English taught in schools and colleges.

1.Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The use of the English language has not changed much in the previous century.

B．BBC announcers speak standard English.

C．English has no relationship with classes and social positions now.

D．Young people don’t like class distinction.

2.What does the author imply by saying “there has been a clear change of attitude towards speech snobbery”?

A．Everyone speaks English as the BBC announcers do.

B．There has been a great change of attitudes towards the status of English.

C．Most people don’t believe the way of speaking by BBC announcers is much better than that of other people.

D．It is necessary to speak standard English with correct grammar.

3.According to the author, there was a trend in the US for young people ________.

A．to speak standard English

B．to speak English with grammatical mistakes

C．to speak old English

D．to speak English without class distinction

4.It can be concluded from the passage that________.

A．standard English is taught only in schools and colleges

B．there has been a great change in the English language in the previous century

C．the English language has not been influenced by the American English in the last 25 years

D．young people are defiant because they refuse to speak standard English

Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she took good care of him and he never did anything at home. So he had enough time when he had a holiday. A few friends of his liked gambling(赌博) and he learned it soon. So he was interested in it and nearly forgot anything except gambling. He lost all his money and later he began to sell the television, watches and so on. His wife told him not to do it but he didn’t listen to her. She had to tell the police. He and his friends were punished for it. And he was hardly sent away. After he came out of lockup(拘留所), he hated her very much and the woman had to leave him.

It was New Year’s Day. Mr. Lang didn’t go to work. He felt lonely and wanted to gamble again. He called his friends and they came soon. But they were afraid the police would come. He told his five-year-old son to go to find out if there were the policemen outside. They waited for a long time and didn’t think the police would come and began to gamble. Suddenly opened the door and in came a few policemen.

“I saw there weren’t any policemen outside, daddy,” said the boy, “so I went to the crossing and asked some to come.”

1.Mrs. Lang did all housework because _______.

A．she couldn’t find any work

B．she thought her husband was tired

C．her husband spent all time in gambling

D．she wouldn’t stop her husband gambling

2._______, so he was put into lockup.

A．Mr. Lang often gambled

B．Mr. Lang was late for work

C．Mr. Lang didn’t help his wife at home

D．Mr. Lang wasn’t polite to the police

3.Which of the following is right?

A．The boy hoped his father to be put into lockup again.

B．The boy thought his father needed some policemen.

C．The boy hoped his father to stop gambling soon.

D．The boy hoped his mother to come back.

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts(工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p．m. till 6 a．m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”

The hours she's chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn't think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn't physically very hard, but it's not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they'd be a bit more careful.”

The fact that she's working all night doesn't worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I've got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you're a cleaner because you don't know how to read and write，” said Margaret. “I used to think what_my_parents_would_say_if_they_knew_what_I'd_been_doing,_but I don't think that way any more. I don't dislike the work though I can't say I'm mad about it.”

1.Margaret quit her job as a nurse because________

A．she wanted to earn more money to support her family

B．she had suffered a lot of mental pressure

C．she felt tired of taking care of patients

D．she needed the right time to look after her children

2.Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because________.

A．they never clean their offices

B．they look down upon cleaners

C．they always make a mess in their offices

D．they never do their work carefully

3.When at work, Margaret feels________.

A．Light­hearted because of her fellow workers

B．happy because the building is fully lit

C．tired because of the heavy workload

D．bored because time passed slowly

4.The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret's parents would________.

A．help care for her children

B．regret what they had said

C．show sympathy for her

D．feel disappointed in her

When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio, a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was   36  to the bus in order not to miss it, she slipped on the ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She   37  the accident but was paralyzed from the waist down. I went to see her, in my 13-year-old   38  thinking that she wouldn’t live   39  from then on.

Over the years, I   40  and didn’t think much about Helen after that. Three years ago, in Florida, my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike,   41  a terrible brain injury. While I was looking after my son, a lady who said she was the hospital’s social worker called. It was a (an)   42  trying day. I burst into tears for no reason and rang   43 .

A short time 1ater, a beautiful woman, in a wheelchair,   44  into my son’s room with a box of   45 . After 16 years, I still   46  Helen. She smiled, handed me the tissues and hugged me. I told her who I was, and after we both went through the shock of that, she began to tell me about   47  since we last saw each other. She married, had children and got her degree so that she   48  the path for those people who were less   49  than her. She told me that if there was anything she could give me, it would be   50 .

Looking at this wonderful, giving person, I felt   51 . But I also felt the first hope I had since learning that my son was   52 . From this person that I thought would have no   53  of life, I learned that where there is life, there is hope. My son miraculously   54  and we moved north, but I owe Helen   55  that I can never repay.

1.                A．walking         B．riding          C．running   D．driving

2.                A．lived           B．survived        C．existed   D．escaped

3.                A．mind           B．brain           C．head D．thought

4.                A．equally         B．calmly          C．quietly   D．normally

5.                A．studied         B．moved         C．worked   D．1ived

6.                A．suffering        B．causing         C．bearing   D．catching

7.                A．normally        B．particularly      C．necessarily    D．eventually

8.                A．up            B．off             C．back D．down

9.                A．ran            B．walked         C．rolled    D．moved

10.               A．tissues         B．presents        C．pills  D．candies

11.               A．realized        B．knew          C．recognized D．reminded

12.               A．her life         B．her son         C．her family  D．her work

13.               A．cleared        B．smoothed       C．cleaned   D．opened

14.               A．rich           B．healthy         C．strong D．fortunate

15.               A．money         B．hope          C．pity  D．medicine

16.               A．small          B．pitiful          C．weak D．shameless

17.               A．admitted       B．beaten         C．hurt  D．hospitalized

18.               A．use            B．value          C．meaning   D．quality

19.               A．treated         B．worsened       C．relieved   D．recovered

20.               A．some money    B．some tissues     C．a debt D．a hope

-----John hit me, Mum!

------__________. You shouldn’ t have been that rude to him.

A．You are as strong as a horse               B．Forget it

C．You are as cool as a cucumber              D．It serves you right

With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth __________ each year, which __________ that our environment is suffering.

A．are washing away, suggest

B．is being washed away, suggest

C．have been washed away, suggests

D．are being washed away, suggests

It is known to us __________ it was not until 1938 ________ the first colour TV programme began to be broadcast in the world.

A．that, which        B．/, /               C．that, that          D．which, that

In China when caught, those corrupt(腐败的) officials are sometimes limited to __________ in a certain place, only __________ their problems within an appointed time(规定的时间).

A．living, to report                         B．living, reporting

C．live, reporting                          D．live, to report

In modern society, alternative energies __________ traditional ones are playing an important role in our daily life. That’s just because scientists have made great breakthroughs _________ the development of science and technology.

A．for, during         B．of, during          C．by, in             D．to, in