It was his first time in the big city,so he was confused（）where he was going.

One cowardly person came to a master of martial arts(武术)to learn bravery. The master looked at him and said: " I will teach you only on one condition, if for one month you will live in a big city and to every passing person on the street you will loudly, openly and looking straight into the eyes tell that you re a coward." The person got really sad, because this task seemed scary to him. For a couple of days he was very sad, but to live with his cowardice(胆小)was so unbearable that he travelled to the city to accomplish his mission. At first, when meeting the passers, he lost his speech. But he needed to finish the master s task, so he began to overcome himself. When he came up to his first passer to tell about his cowardice, it seemed to him that he would die from fear. But each time, his voice sounded louder and more confident. And then a moment came when the man caught himself thinking that he was not scared anymore, and the further he continued doing the task, the more convinced he was that the fear was abandoning him. That way a month had passed. The person came back to the master and said: "Thank you, teacher. I finished your task. Now I m not afraid anymore. But how did you know that this strange task will help me？" "The thing is," the master smiled, "that cowardice is only a habit. And by doing the things that scare us, we can destroy the stereotypes. And now you know that bravery is the same habit. To make it a part of yourself, you need to move forward into the fear. And then the fear will retreat, and bravery will take its place."

What task did the master ask the person to finish？

A．To live with strangers for one month.

B．To travel to a big city and talk to strangers.

C．To tell strangers about his own weakness.

D．To ask strangers for help with his problem.

here very clearly. My friend was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o'clock in the afternoon. The weather was very cold and it was snowing, but I was too excited to mind. From the airport, my friend and I took a taxi to my hotel. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the first time and I stared in astonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their man-made beauty. My friend helped me unpack at the hotel and then left me because he had to go back to work. He promised to return the next day.

Shortly after my friend had left, I went to a restaurant near hotel to get something to eat. Because I couldn't speak a word of English, I couldn't tell the waiter what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some gestures, but the waiter didn't understand me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was eating. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway until I came to Times Square with its movie theatres, neon lights, and huge crowds of people. I did not feel tired, so I continued to walk around the city. I wanted to see everything on my first day. I knew it was impossible, but I wanted to try.

When I returned to the hotel, I was tired out, but I couldn't sleep because I kept hearing the fire and police sirens during the night. I lay awake and thought about New York. It was a very big and interesting city with many tall buildings, big cars, and full of noise and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to speak English.

1. On the way to his hotel, the writer _____.

A. was silent all the time

B. kept talking to his friend

C. looked out of the window with great interest

D. showed his friend something he brought with him

2. He went to _____ to get something to eat.

A. a tea house

B. a pub

C. a café room

D. a nearby restaurant

3. He did not have what he really wanted, because _____.

A. he only made some gestures

B. he did not order at all

C. he could not make himself understood

D. the waiter was unwilling to serve

4. The waiter _____.

A. knew what he would order

B. finally understood what he said

C. took the order through his gestures

D. served the same thing the man at the next table was having

5. After dinner, he _____.

A. walked back to the hotel right away

B. had a walking tour about the city

C. went to the movies

D. did some shopping on Broadway

first U.S. president who was born after World War Ⅱ. He is also one of the youngest of all U.S. presidents.

Clinton was born in a poor family in 19Three, months before he was born, his father, William Blats, died. When he was young, his mother remarried Norger Clinton, so the boy's family name was changed.

In the summer of 1963, Clinton was asked to visit the city of Washington. During this visit, he met President Kennedy in the White House. At that time, he wanted to become a president, and then, he was!

Bill Clinton was born before World War Ⅱ.

A．True.

B．False.

听力原文：Interviewer: Can you still remember the thrill of it？ I mean the first time you actually ride out there, out in front must be ...

Man: Yeah, yeah, it was certainly a big thrill, but it was an evening event. It was the last race and it was almost dark by the time we'd finished and when I got home it was about ten or eleven o'clock, so there was very little time to think about it or do anything. And I had to be up at about half five the next day for my job, so unfortunately it was straight back to work really.

You hear part of an interview in which a man is talking about winning his first horse race. What does he say about it？

A．He found it rather disappointing.

B．He didn't have a chance to celebrate.

C．He was too tired to care.

ept the shadowy , moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into all aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly in to the past. Questions:

Which fiction is this excerpt from？ Who is the author of the novel？

,000 years old. The first English people, the Saxons, were fishermen there, and they gave Greenwich its name "green village". Before came the Roman, you could still walk on the old Roman road in Greenwich Park. But the river was the true road to the outside world for the Romans, and for the English kings and queens who later live at Greenwich in their beautiful palaces.

The name of the earliest palace was Placentia. Its windows were made of glass--the first in England. Herry Va loved placentia. But Henry understood the future of his country, too: he knew that England must be strong at sea. So he started two big shipyards at Greenwich, and for 350 years the ships made there were the best in the world.

In 1649, a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king. When the war ended, Placentia was falling down. So King Charles 1I built a new and bigger palace, which is now the Royal (皇家的) Naval College and is open to the public.

At this time, Charles was worried about losing so many of his ships at sea: Their sailors didn't know how to tell exactly where they were. So in 1675 Charles made John Flamsteed the first Astronomer (天文台) Royal, to try to find the answer. Flamsteed worked in a new Observatory (天文台) on the high ground in Greenwich Park. With a telescope he made himself, Flamsteed could look all around the sky. And he did, night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Fiamsteed's work a hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison (1693 - 1776) finally made a clock which told the time at sea; and helped sailors to know where they were. You can see Harrison’s clock, still working, in Greenwich’s museum of the sea. Because of Flamsteed’s work, every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time.

Who first lived in the place that is called Greenwich today according to this passage ？ ______.

A．Henry Ⅷ

B．Romans

C．Charles Ⅱ

D．the Saxons

learly. My friendwas waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airportat three o’clock in the afternoon. The weather was very cold and it wassnowing, but I was too excited to mind. From the airport, my friend and I tooka taxi to my hotel. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the first time and I stared inastonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their man-made beauty. My friendhelped me unpack at the hotel and them left me because he had to go back towork. He promised to return the next day.

Shortly after my friend hadleft, I went to a restaurant near the hotel to get something to eat. Because Icouldn’t speak a word of English, I couldn’t tell the waiter what I wanted. Iwas very upset and started to make some gestures, but the waiter didn’tunderstand me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table waseating. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway until I came to Times Square with its movie theatres, neon lights, andhuge crowds of people. I did not feel tired, so I continued to walk around thecity. I wanted to see everything on my first day. I knew it was impossible, butI wanted to try.

When I returned to thehotel, I was exhausted, but I couldn’t sleep because I kept hearing the fireand police sirens during the night. I lay awake and thought about New York. It was a verybig and interesting city with many tall buildings and big cars, and full ofnoise and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to speakEnglish.

6. On the way tohis hotel, the writer _____________.

a.was silent all the time

b.kept talking to his friend

c.showed his friend something he brought with him

d.looked out of the window with great interest

7. He did nothave what he really wanted, because _________.

a.he only made some gestures

b.he did not order at all

c.the waiter was unwilling to serve

d.he could not make himself understood

8. The waiter______________.

a.knew what he would order

b.finally understood what he said

c.served the same thing the man at the next table was having

d.took the order through his gestures

9. After dinner,he _______________.

a.walked back to the hotel right away

b.went to the movies

c.did some shopping on Broadway

d.had a walking tour about the city

10. That night hecould not sleep, because ______________.

a.he did not know what to do the next day

b.he was not tired at all

c.he was thinking about his great city

d.he kept hearing the fire and police sirens

二. 介词填空: (按课本课文内容填入适当的介词)

11. Successfullanguage learners are learners _____ a purpose.

12. Successful languagelearners are independent learners. They do not depend _____ the book or theteacher.

13. It is just like a24-hour library, which enables us to search ____ the right information we needby simply typing in some key words.

14. It is necessary for themto learn the language in order to communicate ____ these people and to learnfrom them.

15. ____ the other hand, ifyour language learning has been lessthan successful, you might do well to try some of the techniques outlinedabove.

udience. He also received excellent reviews from numerous critics. I, personally, would also like to give two thumbs up to this one! It is unusual for a new filmmaker to receive so much attention after directing just one film, but clearly film critics feel he has a certain gift to create something. He's visiting the city this week to speak to students at Green Diamond film school, and we are fortunate he has added us to his busy schedule, and is spending time with us as well. Thank you for joining us in this studio, Mr. Stevenson.

Who is Morris Stevenson？

A．A magazine editor

B．A filmmaker

C．A financial analyst

D．An actor

ler" was the early nickname for the policeman, but this one has died out. Of course, among the criminal part of the community where the police are given more derogatory (贬损的) nicknames which originated in America, such as "fuzz" or "pig".

Visitors to England seem, nearly always to be very impressed by the English police. They are usually very friendly and have helpful sort of character. In London, the policemen spend so much of their time directing visitors about the city that one wonders how they ever find time to do anything else!

Two things are immediately noticeable to the stranger, when he sees an English policeman for the first time. The first is that he does not carry a pistol and the second is that he wears the policeman's helmet. From time to time it is suggested that the policeman should be given a pistol and that his helmet should be taken from him, but both these suggestions are resisted by the majority of the public and the police themselves.

The nickname that is not used now is ______.

A．pig

B．peeler

C．fuzz

D．bobby

The City

In one sense, we can trace all the problems of the American city back to a single starting point: we Americans don't like our cities very much.

That is, on file face of it, absurd (荒谬的). After all, more than three-fourths of us now live in cities, and more are flocking to them every year. We are told that the problems of our cities are receiving more attention in Washington, and scholarship has discovered a whole new field in urban studies.

I don't pretend to be a scholar on the history of the city in American life. But my thirteen years in public office, first as an officer of the U.S. Department of Justice, then as Congressman, and now as Mayor of the biggest city in America, have taught me all too well the fact that a strong anti-urban attitude runs consistently through the mainstream of American thinking. Much of the drive behind the settlement of America was in reaction to the conditions in European industrial centers -- and much of the theory supporting the basis of freedom in America was linked directly to the availability of land and the perfectibility of man outside the corrupt influences of the city.

What has this to do with the predicament of the modem city？ I think it has much to do with it. The fact is that the United States, particularly the federal government, which has historically established our national priorities, has simply never thought that the American city was "worthy" of improvement -- at least not to the extent of expending any basic resources on it.

Antipathy (反感) to the city predates the American experience. When industrialization drove the European working man into the major cities of the continent, books and pamphlets appeared attacking the city as a source of crime, corruption, filth, disease, vice, licentiousness (放荡), subversion, and high prices. The theme of some of the earliest English novels -- Moll Flander for example -- is that of the innocent country youth coming to the big city and being subjected to all forms of horror until justice -- and a return to the pastoral life -- follow.

The proper opinion of Europe seemed to support the Frenchman who wrote: "In the country, a man's mind is free and easy; but in the city, the persons of friends and acquaintances, one's own and other people's business, foolish quarrels, ceremonies, visits, impertinent discourses, and a thousand other diversions steal away the greatest part of our time and leave no leisure for better and necessary employment. Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts."

This was not, of course, the only opinion on city life. Others maintained that the city was "the fireplace of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the cold dark world." And William Penn planned Philadelphia as the "holy city," carefully laid out so that each house would have the appearance of a country cottage m avoid the density and overcrowding that so characterized European cities.

Without question, however, the first major thinker to express a clear antipathy to the urban way of life was Thomas Jefferson. For Jefferson, the political despotism (专制制度) of Europe and economic despotism of great concentrations of wealth, on the one hand, and poverty on the other, were symbolized by the cities of London and Paris, which he visited frequently during his years as a diplomatic representative of the new nation. In the new world, with its opportunities for widespread landholding, there was the chance for a flowering of authentic freedom, with each citizen, free from economic dependence, both able and eager to participate in charting the course of his own future. America, in a real sense, was an escape from all the injustice that had flourished in Europe -- injustice that was characterized by the big city.

This Jeffersonian theme was to remain an integral part of the A

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

第二节 完型填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

George was a young man (1) had gone to the big city from a small village and, (2) his hard work, had, in a short time, (3) successful in the business world. George's sudden rise had gone to his head, (4) , and he had become too proud (5) himself. Then George (6) home for a visit, halfway (7) everyone in town to be at the railway station to welcome and cheer for (8) hero.

(9) to his surprise, George saw (10) .no one, not even his family, was around to (11) him when he came down from the train, looking very (12) in a new suit and carrying a big suitcase (13) of other fashionable (时髦的)clothes.

For a (14) the boy just stood on the platform(站台), wondering what (15) .

Several people passed (16) , but all of them did not (17) any attention to George, not even so much (18) glancing his way.

(19) , the station master came from his office and rushed over (20) the unhappy young fellow. "Well, hello there, George," he called out cheerily. "Are you going away？"

(1)

A．he

B．which

C．what

D．who