Ladies and Gentlemen, some strange, wild and wonderful stories colored the news in 2010, you may like them.
● A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its buses for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.
● Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin（棺材）among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.
● A man in New York came up with a disarming（手无寸铁的）way to perform his latest bank heist , approaching the clerk’s window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a note saying “give me the money!”
● An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.
● A set of artificial teeth(假牙) made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction（拍卖）.
● A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping（抛弃）a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.
● The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.
● Two Australian men needed surgery（手术）after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt and they were charged 400 dollars separately.
● A Kuwaiti MP(议员) suggested state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in an effort to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.
1.What is special about the coffin in the second news?
A．It is golden. B．It has a cell phone.
C．It is new. D．It has many items.
2.What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “heist” in the third news?
A．robbery B．love C．discussion D．repair
3.Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?
A．A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin.
B．One who bought Winston Churchill’s artificial teeth.
C．An Australian man who was shot in bottom to test the hurt.
D．An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms.
A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages. They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat rooms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives.
Ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. This obsessional behavior has affected teenagers and college students. They are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites.
They become addicted to computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation. They spend all free time surfing and don’t concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades and success at school. Because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. Moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life.
They spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. The relation with their friends changes. The virtual life becomes more important than their real life. They have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society.
Because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. They share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. Although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. It is a problem for the future. This addictive behavior is beginning to affect all the world.
1.The main idea of the passage is about________.
A．the cause of weboholism
B．the advantage of weboholism
C．the popularity of weboholism
D．the influence of weboholism
2.The underlined word “obsessional” in the second paragraph most probably means “________”.
A．addictive B．professional
C．attractive D．hidden
3.We can infer from the passage that ________.
A．weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagers
B．virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway
C．people are addicted to games on the Internet
D．students can hardly balance real and virtual life
Where was I? The room was dark and quiet. My head hurt really badly. I shouted, “Help! Help! Can anybody help me?”
After a while somebody came in. The room was so dark that I couldn’t see his face clearly. The man turned on the light and said with a sharp voice, “Ah! Sweetie, do you still remember who I am?” I was shocked. Oh, my God! I cried, “You are Michael Zey, the man I charged with murder! Why are you here? You should be in prison!”
“You never thought about the result of charging a gang（犯罪团伙） leader, did you? Because of you, I was in prison for 15 years. You ruined my life!” His voice was very cold. My face was pale with fear. He was here to take revenge（报复）!
“Please, let me go! Don't hurt me! Please!” I asked him. “Dr. Calment, you are smart enough to know it is impossible. Now, I give you two choices. One is shooting your head. It is the quickest way. The other is cremation（火葬）. Your husband and you will be together forever. It’s quite romantic. Don't you think?” He spoke angrily. “What? My husband? He is innocent!” I shouted at him.
Suddenly, he took hold of my head and said, “You will pay for what you have done to me.” He took out a gun from his bag.
“Help! Help! Can anybody help me?”
1.What might have happened to the writer before the man came in?
A．She had taken his place and become a gang leader.
B．She had come to this place to see her husband.
C．She wanted to pay for what she had done to Michael Zey.
D．She had been beaten terribly.
2. Which of the following words can best describe how the writer felt when the story happened?
A．Surprised. B．Terrified. C．Amazed. D．Puzzled.
3. What does the underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
A．To let her go. B．To hurt her.
C．To take revenge. D．To stay in prison.
4. Michael Zey mentioned the writer’s husband because ______.
A．he thought her husband was guilty
B．he thought it was romantic
C．he thought her husband was innocent
D．he wanted to frighten the writer
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The moment happened 30 yours ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had 26 up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first 27 of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a 28 . A few minutes nap（小睡）time before class couldn’t 29 , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my 30 beating wildly trying to find the cause of the 31 . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish（孩子气的）smile on his face. He had 32 dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still 33 . “I am glad to see everyone is 34 . Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the 35 of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the 36 discussion he led. With knowledge and good 37 he made the material come 38 . His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he 39 with were contagious（有感染力的）. I 40 the classroom not only wide awake, but a little 41 and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not 42 in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life，do it well，do it with 43 . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work happily and well. Don’t sleepwalk（梦游）your way through 44 then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too 45 not to live it well.
1. A．took B．divided C．stayed D．put
2. A．class B．test C．task D．lecture
3. A．platform B．pillow C．carpet D．wall
4. A．benefit B．help C．last D．hurt
5. A．heart B．mind C．thought D．head
6. A．trouble B．noise
C．failure D．reference
7. A．angrily B．unfortunately
C．deliberately D．reasonably
8. A．smiling B．talking C．complaining D．shouting
9. A．active B．curious C．present D．awake
10. A．sound B．shock C．revolution D．blow
11. A．fascinating B．convincing
C．puzzling D．encouraging
12. A．detail B．sense C．humor D．design
13. A．strange B．natural C．handy D．alive
14. A．taught B．spread C．combined D．started
15. A．decorated B．filled C．left D．entered
16. A．clearer B．smarter C．quieter D．stronger
17. A．discussing B．speaking C．cheating D．sleeping
18. A．joy B．speed
C．aim D．qualification
19. A．work B．life C．journey D．college
20. A．hard B．complex C．short D．simple
—I think Maths is playing a more important part in the new test system. What about you?
—________. We should be more devoted to it.
A．Fact speaks louder than words.
B．One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
C．Great minds think alike.
D．Don’t claim to know what you don’t know.
New technology was used in teaching. As a result, not only ________, but students became moreinterested in lessons.
A．saved was teachers’ energy
B．was teachers’ energy saved
C．teachers’ energy was saved
D．was saved teachers’ energy
