I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends，and they to me. Without them，there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I want to tell you today：get a life. A real life，not a desire of the next promotion(提升)，the bigger paycheck and the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love，and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲) but work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of living. I learned to live many years ago. Something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life. If I had my choice，it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey，not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it，completely and totally. And I tried to do that，in part，by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this：read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness，because if you do，you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.
1.The best title of this passage probably is “________”．
A．Love Your Friends B．Live a Real Life
C．Don’t Waste Time D．Be a Good Mother and Wife
2.How did the author form her view of life?
A．Through social experience.
B．By learning from her friends.
C．Through an unfortunate experience.
D．From her children and husband.
3.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of living.” in the fifth paragraph，the author really means that people tend to________.
A．make a living rather than live a real life
B．work rather than enjoy life
C．waste a lot in life
D．forget the most important lesson in life
4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A．the author is a success in personal life
B．the author doesn’t try her best to work well
C．the author spends all her time caring for her children
D．the author likes traveling very much
Last year college students in America spent an estimated $700 on textbooks on average. The National Association of College Stores reported more than five billion dollars in sales of textbooks and course materials.
The association spokesman Charles Schmidt says electronic textbooks now just make up 2%～3% of sales. But he says that is expected to reach 10%～15% by 2012.
Online versions(版本) are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks. An etextbook can cost half the price of a new print textbook. But students usually lose access to them after the end of the term. And the books cannot be placed on more than one device(设备)，so they are not easy to share.
So what do students think of etextbooks？Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find it out. Earlier this year they tested them with 500 students in 20 classes.
The university is unusual. It provides laptop computers for all 7,000 of its fulltime students. It does not require students to buy their textbooks either. They rent them to save money. The school aims to save even more by moving to etextbooks.
The students in the survey reported that downloading the books from the Internet was easy. They liked the idea of carrying lighter backpacks. And 56% said they were better able to find information.
But most found that using etextbooks did not change their study habits. And 60% felt they read more when they were reading on paper. In all，almost half the students said they still liked physical textbooks better.
But the survey found that cost could be a big influence.55% said they would choose etextbooks if using them meant their textbook rental fee would not increase.
Roger Von Holzen heads the Center for Information Technology in Education at Northwest Missouri State University. He tells us that administrators are disappointed with the etextbooks now available because the majority are not interactive(交互式的)．
He thinks growth will come when more digital books include video，activities，games and other ways to interact with the information. The technology is improving. But for now，most of the books are just words on a screen.
1.Etextbooks are not better than paper books in that________.
A．they cost more money
B．they’re difficult to carry
C．they’re not convenient to share
D．they can’t be downloaded from the Internet
2.How many surveyed students think paper books make better reading?
A．60%. B．56%. C．55%. D．50%.
3.It can be inferred from the text that in the future________.
A．digital books will be more popular
B．the digital books available need improvement
C．free digital books are available online
D．digital books will replace print textbooks
Where we live，on the eastern shore of Maryland，the gentle waters run in and out like fingers slimming at the tips.
The Canada geese know this place，as do the white swans and the ducks. In autumn，they come home for the winter. Once or twice each year，snow and frozen rain move into the area. When this happens，if the river is at its narrowest，there is a freeze which hardens the water to ice.
One morning，a friend of mine set the breakfast table beside the huge window，which overlooked the Tred Avon River. Suddenly she leaned forward and cried out，“There is a goose out there.”
We saw the figure of a large Canada goose，very still，its wings folded tight to its sides，its feet frozen into the ice.
Then from the dark skies，she saw a line of swans. They floated from the top of the sky downward and at last landed on the ice. My friend was on her feet now，with one hand against her mouth，unbelieving. As the swans surrounded the frozen goose，she feared that life it still had might be pecked(啄) out by those great swan bills.
Instead，those bills began to work on the ice. The long necks were lifted and curved down，again and again. It went on for a long time. At last，the goose’s head was lifted. Its body was pulled. Then the goose was free and stood on the ice. And the swans stood in the air watching. Then，as if it had cried，“I cannot fly.” Four of the swans came down around it. Their powerful beaks chipped off the ice held in the feathers. Slowly，the goose spread its wings as far as they would go，and moved slowly into the sky.
This is a true story. I just think of it in the bad moment，and from it comes only one hopeful question：If so for birds，why not for man？
1.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A．Why Not for Man? B．Graceful Swans
C．Swans’ Brave Act D．I Just Couldn’t Believe It!
2.What happened to the Canada goose?
A．It was deserted by other geese.
B．It was stuck in the ice.
C．It was wounded and couldn’t fly.
D．It was lost in the water.
3.At first the author’s friend was worried that________.
A．the swans would not help the Canada goose
B．she didn’t care about this matter any more
C．the swans wouldn’t identify with the Canada goose
D．the swans would peck the Canada goose to death
4.What did the swans do when they saw the Canada goose couldn’t fly?
A．They chipped off the ice held in its feathers.
B．They waited patiently for the ice held in its feathers to melt.
C．They came down and lifted it up to the sky together.
D．They stayed with it and protected it.
Once a farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a(n)____ advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his
yard.____he was driving the last nail into the post，he felt a sudden pull on his trousers.He____down into the eyes of a little boy.
“Mister，”he said，“I want to buy one of your puppies.”
“Well，”said the farmer，as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his___，“these puppies come from fine parents and____ a good deal of money.”
The boy____his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket，he pulled out a handful of____and held it up to the farmer. “I’ve got thirtynine cents. Is that enough to take a look？”
“Sure，”said the farmer.
And with that he____a whistle，“Here，Dolly！”he called.
____from the doghouse and down the road ran Dolly____by four little balls of fur. As the dogs made their____to the fence，the little boy noticed something else moving inside the doghouse.____another little ball appeared，this one noticeably smaller. The little pup began walking unsteadily toward the others，doing its best to____.
“I want that one，”the little boy said，____at the runt (矮个子)．
The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said，“Son，you____want that puppy. He will never be able to____and play with you as other dogs would.”
With that the little boy____back from the fence，reached down，and began rolling up one leg of his____.In doing so he showed a steel brace(支柱) running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a____made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer，he said，“You see，sir，I don’t run too well myself，and he will need someone who understands.” The____is full of people who need someone who understands.
1.A.sight B．paper C．information D．sign
2.A.Then B．Before C．As D．After
3.A.put B．looked C．knelt D．stared
4.A.nose B．neck C．head D．face
5.A.spend B．spare C．make D．cost
6.A.raised B．lifted C．fell D．dropped
7.A.notes B．change C．sugar D．goods
8.A.let out B．carried out C．put out D．left out
9.A.Up B．Over C．Out D．In
10.A.came B．followed C．went D．caught
11.A.step B．way C．walk D．drive
12.A.Quickly B．Slowly C．Oddly D．Sadly
13.A.get up B．stand up C．catch up D．move up
14.A.moving B．pointing C．calling D．turning
15.A.mustn’t B．don’t C．can’t D．needn’t
16.A.run B．sit C．walk D．stand
17.A.stepped B．talked C．climbed D．fell
18.A.clothes B．dresses C．sweaters D．trousers
19.A.simply B．specially C．carefully D．newly
20.A.farm B．country C．city D．world
A driver should __ the road when .
A. concentrate on; drive B. concentrate in; driving
C. concentrate to; drove D. concentrate on; driving
With everything needed________，she declared that the party began.
A．in the place B．taking place C．out of place D．in place
