In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call joy and love.

I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did love the water. Any kind of boat ride seemed to give him pleasure. And he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.

But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being in the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong swimmer, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my fears. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and spending those summer days with my father, who would come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the only person not in swimsuit.

After swimming, I would go inside his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me play with anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his office things. But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get myself an ice cream…

A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “l(fā)ook at once, in childhood” that decides our memories, but who, in that childhood, looks at us.

65. What was probably the author’s father?

A. A poet.       B. A professor.      C. A fisherman.      D. An ice-cream man.

66. The author loved being in the swimming pool close to her father’s office mainly because ________.

A. she was interested in her father’s office things

B. she wanted her father to buy her some ice-cream

C. she loved showing her progress in swimming to her father

D. she wanted others to know how much her father loved her

67. Which of the following statement is not true according to the passage?

A. The author loved her father deeply.

B. The author’s father was quite fond of fishing.

C. The author didn’t start to swim very young.

D. The author’s father was very strict with her.

68. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

A. Swimming, my favorite sport

B. Father, source of joy and love

C. Memories of past days

D. Interesting summer activities

Cash is no longer king as far as most Australians and South Koreans are concerned as more than eight in ten pay less often in cash today than they did five years ago, according to a survey released on Monday.   50   , 69 percent of Americans surveyed use less cash than five years ago,   51    in Asia the figures were generally    52   , with Singapore at 45 percent, said MasterCard Worldwide.

Shuan Ghaidan, MasterCard’s Asia Pacific head of product sales and delivery, said one 53    for the    54    use of cash in Australia was the growing    55    of debit cards (借記卡), while in South Korea contactless payment on mobile phones had been popular. Credit cards    56    be used for higher value transactions, he said. Besides young people, for  whom    57    cards are usually their first card, he said the debit card is also    58    by some older people “who don’t want credit any more, don’t want to    59    debt any more.”

The global    60    has been rocked in the past year by a credit crisis    61    US mortgage loan defaults (次級房貸問題).

The    62    noted that nearly nine in ten Australians and New Zealanders said they

63   carrying large amounts of cash, compared with six in ten Singaporeans or 80 percent of Americans.

MasterCard said it    64    7,000 interviews across 12 countries, including Malaysia, China, South Korea, Canada, Italy, France and Germany.

Do you ever feel like no one understands you? It may seem like everyone else has lots of friends, and is getting invited to fun parties and outings while you are at home by yourself. But in fact, you’re not the only one who feels like this. In today’s    41   , with so many people all crowded together in such big cities, lots of people feel alone, even when there are many people    42    them.

But being alone doesn’t    43    that you have to be lonely. Whenever I’m reading a book, exercising, or doing other things that I love, I don’t feel lonely at all. I    44    feel quite happy when I’m busy. But when I focus on all of the things that I’m lacking, I get lonely and feel unhappy. Everyone feels lonely at one point or another ― even the happiest people can feel lonely sometimes.

That you may feel lonely doesn’t mean it has to be a painful    45   . You can actually enjoy your time   46   by doing things that make you happy ― give some   47   attention to yourself and to your hobbies. Reading a good book, going on a walk, or keeping a diary can give you some time to think about yourself and your feelings. Sometimes, it’s even more fun to do things on your own without anyone else to think about.

Since November 11th is “Bachelor’s Day”（單身漢節(jié)）why not    48    your independence and treat yourself to something special. Enjoy the quiet time by yourself. If your friends are feeling lonely, make sure that you    49    them by being there during hard times. And remember, one doesn’t have to be the loneliest number!

Chinese Premier Wen’s speech, ________"See China in the light of her development", was warmly welcomed by a packed and receptive international audience of more than 500 staff and students in the university

A. entitled                     B. entitling                    C. having entitled           D. being entitled

This product was launched in 2006 and sales rose steadily over the following two years period, ________ a total of 40,000 in 2008.

A. reached                    B. to reach                    C. and reaching             D. reaching

Thousands of African-Americans cheered Obama’s being elected American President in the streets on November 4th 2008, many of ________ even cried with joy.

A. those                       B. them                        C. whom                    D. which

________ he notices some differences between Britain and America, he is not negative about these.

A. Since                B. Although                   C. In case                            D. As if

We’re conducting a nationwide survey of people’s reading habits. Would you have five minutes ________ a few questions?

A. answering         B. to answer                 C. to have answered      D. having answered

It is because of the frequent exposure to strong sunlight ________ Australian women are likely to suffer from skin cancer.

A. that           B. why              C. when              D. which

Only when it can be made available and practical ________.

A. knowledge is power                              B. is knowledge power

C. is a knowledge a power                         D. can knowledge be a power