Tell us a special festival around the world.

The story wants to tell us that ______.

A．astronauts have to eat as little as they can in space

B．food for astronauts must be made in a special way

C．astronauts will only eat cakes

听力原文：M：You said you were going to give us a special assignment this time.

W：Yes, you must do something interesting and be prepared to tell the class about it on Monday in about 200 words.

Q：What is the probable relationship between the two speakers？

(3)

A．Student and teacher.

B．Patient and doctor.

C．Secretary and boss.

D．Tourist and guide.

absent.

W: Well, he gave us a special assignment on the anniversary of Lincoln's birthday.

Q: What's the probable relationship between the two speakers？

(13)

A．Parent and child.

B．Boss and employee.

C．Classmates.

D．Teacher and student.

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en said to be a very special place for visitors to get to know the real life of the English people.The pub is a small “public place”, where people can buy beer, soft drinks and even some fast food.What’s more, a pub is also a meeting place where people sit and enjoy the beer and talking with their friends.One can easily find a pub at the street corner or in a small village.English people like the pub a lot.After a whole day of busy work, many men spend the whole evening in the pub and go back home at about eleven o’clock when the pub closes.

1.One can easily find a pub in England.（）

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.The passage doesn't tell us

2.A pub is usually a large restaurant.（）

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.The passage doesn't tell us

3.People go to the pub to （）.

A.watch a film

B.sit and enjoy the beer

C.talk with their friends

D.both B and C

4.Many men spend the whole day drinking in the pub.（）

A.Right

B.Wrong

C.The passage doesn't tell us

5.The pub usually closes around （）o’clock in the evening.

A.10

B.11

C.12

D.None of the above

his morning. The plane's transponder was broadcasting a signal indicating it had been hijacked. The Virgin Atlantic flight from London's Heathrow Airport was midway across the Atlantic when air traffic control officials in the US started receiving its signal: a signal which carried a special code indicating them was a hijacking in progress. Canadian fighter jets operating under NORAD, the joint Canada-US command, were scrambled to intercept the jet. According to NORAD, the pilots of the passenger jet repeatedly radioed in to tell controllers they were not being hijacked. But US officials erred on the side of caution. After the plane landed, armed police boarded it to ensure there were no hijackers. It was determined that the plane's transponder had mal-functioned, and was mistakenly transmitting code "7500" for hijacking.

Why the passenger jet was forced to land at Halifax, Canada？

A．Some passengers would get off the plane in Canada.

B．There was something wrong about the plane and it could not fly again.

C．Because there were criminals on the jet plane. '

D．Because it had been thought that the jet had been hijacked.

Life is difficult.

It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult.

Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nations.

What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their natures, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes endless serious of problems, life is always difficulties and is full of pain as well as joy.

Yes, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious tests that tell us success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to resolve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

From this passage, it can be inferred that ________.

A．everybody has problems

B．we become stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life

C．life is difficult because our problems bring us pain

D．people like to complain about their problems

lose a relation, and the 'miter may lose objectivity. Not close enough, and the writer may lack the sympathy necessary to any effort to portray a mind, a soul—the quality of life. Who should write the biography of a family, for example？ Because of their closeness to the subject, family members may have special information, but by the same token, they may not have the distance that would allow them to be fair. Similarly, a king's servant might not be the best one to write a biography of' that king. But a foreigner might not have the knowledge and sympathy necessary to write the king's biography—not for a readership from within the kingdom, at any rate.

There is no ideal position for such a task. The biographer has to work with the position he or she has in the world, adjusting that position as necessary to deal with the subject. Every position has strengths and weaknesses: to thrive, a writer must try to become aware of these, evaluate them in terms of the subject, and select a position accordingly.

When their subjects are heroes of famous figures, biographies often reveal a democratic motive: they attempt to show that their subjects arc only human, no better than anyone else. Other biographies are meant to change us, to invite us to become better than we are. The biographies of Jesus found in the Bible are in this class.

Biographers may claim that their account is the" authentic" one. In advancing this claim, they are helped if the biography is" authorized" b the subject; this presumably allows the biographer special access to private information. "Unauthorized" biographies also have their appeal, however, since they can suggest an independence of mind in the biographer. In book promotions, the" unauthorized “characterization usually suggests the prospect of juicy gossip that the subject had hoped to suppress. A subject might have several biographies, even several" authentic" ones. We sense intuitively that no one is in a position to tell " the" story of a life, perhaps not even the subject, and this has been proved by the history of biography.

According to the author, an ideal biographer would be one who______.

A．knows the subject very well and yet maintains a proper distance from him

B．is close to the subject and knows the techniques of biography writing

C．is independent and treats tile subject with fairness and objectivity

D．possesses special private information and is sympathetic toward the subject

Life is difficult.

It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult.

Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nations.

What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their natures, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes endless serious problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

Yes, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious tests that tell us success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to resolve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct. " It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

From this passage, it can be inferred that______.

A．everybody has problems

B．we become stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life

C．life is difficult because our problems bring us pain

D．people like to complain about their problems

l know, Morrison is both a popular and highly respected author and its not easy to be both. Born in 1931, Morrison has written some of the most touching and intelligent works on the African-American experience ever written by anyone. And yet to call her an African-American writer doesnt seem to do her justice. In many ways, shes simply an American writer and certainly one of the best. Beloved is a truly remarkable work. It was recommended for nearly every nature literary class, including the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and it in fact won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. Morrison herself is distinguished for having won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. What makes Beloved unique is the skillful sure way in which Morrison blends intensely personal storytelling and American history, racial themes and gender themes, the experience of blacks with the experience of all people everywhere, the down-to-earth reality of slavery with the sense of mysterious spirituality. We will be paying special attention to these themes as we discuss this work and Im particularly interested in your views on the relative importance of grace and gender in this book. Is it more important that Sethe, the main character, is black, or that she is a woman？ Which contributes more to her being？ What does Morrison tell us about both？ 23. What do we learn about Toni Morrison？ 24. What honor did Toni Morrison receive in 1993？ 25. What does the speaker tell us about Sethe, the main character, in Morrisons novel Beloved？24．

A．The Book Critics Circle Award.

B．The Nobel Prize for literature.

C．The Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

D．The National Book Award.