Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Odiand can' t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman' a kind reaction (反應(yīng)). She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odiand, “It’s OK. It wasn't your fault. " When she left the restaurant, she also left the future For­tune 500 CEO (總裁) with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odiand isn't the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It' s hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says noth­ing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, " I could buy this place and fire you," or "I know the owner and I could have you fired. " Those who say such things have shown more about their character (人品) than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person," Swan-son says. " I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables. "

1. What happened after Odiand dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?

A. He was fired.                B. He was blamed.

C. The woman comforted him.     D. The woman left the restaurant at once.

2. Odiand learned one of his life lessons from ______.

A. his experience as a waiter               B. the advice given by the CEOs

C. an article in Fortune                       D. an interesting best-selling book

3. According to the text, most CEOs have the same opinion about _______.

A. Fortune 500 companies                     B. the Management Rules

C. Swanson’s book                           D. the Waiter Rule

4. From the text we can learn that _______.

A. one should be nicer to important people

B. CEOs often show their power before others

C. one should respect others no matter who they are 

D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain. Without enough blood, the brain lives for only three to five minutes. More often the doctors can' t fix the damage. Sometimes they are afraid to try something to help because it is dangerous to work on the brain. The doctors might make the person worse if he operates on the brain.

Dr. Robert White, a famous professor and doctor, thinks he knows a way to help. He thinks doctors should make the brain very cold. If it is very cold, the brain can live without blood for 30 minutes. This gives the doctor a longer time to do something for the brain.

Dr. White tried his idea on 13 monkeys. First he taught them to do different jobs, then he op­erated on them. He made the monkeys' blood go through a machine. The machine cooled the blood. Then the machine sent the blood back to the monkeys' brains. When the brain’s tempera­ture was 10°C, Dr. White stopped the blood to the brain. After 30 minutes he turned the blood back on. He warmed the blood again. After their operations the monkeys were like they had been before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do the jobs the doctor had taught them.

1. The biggest difficulty in operating on the damaged brain is that _______.

A. the time is too short for doctors              B. the patients are often too nervous

C. the damage is extremely hard to fix  D. the blood-cooling machine might break down

2. The brain operation was made possible mainly by _______.

A. taking the blood out of the brain             B. trying the operation on monkeys first

C. having the blood go through a machine D. lowering the brain' s temperature

3. With Dr. White’s new idea, the operation on the damaged brain _______.

A. can last as long as 30 minutes            B. can keep the brain' s blood warm

C. can keep the patient’s brain healthy        D. can help monkeys do different jobs

4. What is the right order of the steps in the operation?

a. send the cooled blood back to the brain

b. stop the blood to the brain

c. have the blood cooled down

d. operate on the brain

A. a,b,c,d              B. c,a,b,d       C. c, b, d, a         D. b, c, d, a

Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit, however, that they hard­ly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer (作曲家) begins, how he manages to keep going - in fact, how and where he learns his trade -all are covered in complete darkness. The composer, in short, is a man of mystery (神秘).

One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration (靈感) plays in a composer' s work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all. Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.

The composer, therefore, does not say to himself: "Do I feel inspired?" He says to himself:

"Do I feel like working today?" And if he feels like working, he does. It is more or less like saying to himself: "Do I feel sleepy?" If you feel sleepy, you go to sleep. If you don't feel sleepy, you stay up. If the composer doesn’t' feel like working, he doesn’t work. It’s as simple as that.

1. What would be the best tide for the text?

A. Composer: a man of mystery          B. Practice makes good music

C. Relation between sleeping and music      D. Music: product of nature

2. The words "covered in complete darkness" underlined in Paragraph I most probably mean

A. difficult to be made      B. without any light      C. black in color    D. not known

3. Most people seem to think that a composer _______ .

A. finds it difficult to write music         B. considers it important to have a good rest

C. should like to talk about inspiration   D. never asks himself very simple questions

4. The author will most probably agree that composers _______

A. are born with a gift for music                 B. are people full of mystery

C. work late at night for their music            D. know a lot about eating and sleeping

- Mary, do you want to see the pictures of my holiday in Italy?

-  1

- Ah, it was great! The food was great! The wine was great! But the traffic was terrible!

-  2

- Those Italians are crazy drivers! I don’t want to think about it!

- OK, OK.   3

- Yes, so here’s a picture of the Tower of Pisa.

- How nice!

- It was raining that day, but it was still wonderful. We climbed to the top!

-  4

- That’s a photo of the Amo River. That’s the "Ponte Vecchio", the old bridge.

-   5

- It was very interesting. There were beautiful old buildings in the city, and lots of wonderful museums.

- That’s nice.

A.   And what’s this?

B.   Why was it so bad?

C.   Yes, it was wonderful.

D.   What was Florence like?

E.   Let’s return to the good parts.

F.    Sure, what was your holiday like?

G.    Well, did you like your hotel there?

1. There' s a _____   (留言) from Karen on the phone.                         1. ______

2. This football game was _______(播出) live on TV across Europe.               2. ______

3. They' re going to  _______ (慶祝) their victory with music and dancing.   3. ______

4. The _______ (大多數(shù))of students find it quite hard to learn German.           4.______

5. Very few people _______(成功) in losing weight these days.                 5. ______

6. The book gives a short _____ (描述) of the city.                                   6. ______

7. The doctor _______ (表揚(yáng)) our daughter for her courage this morning.              7. ______

8. There were piles of newspapers _______ (到處) in the house.                  8. ______

9. What is your_______ (最喜歡的) color?                                  9. ______

10. The little girl is wearing a _______ (粉紅色的) dress.                       10. ______

Dear Grandpa,

Thank you for your letter.

My school is organizing a basketball team and

there's just a chance which I can join it. I'm little of          1. _______

course, but terribly quick and bravely. While the others         2. _______

are jumping about in the air, I can run under my legs           3. _______

and get the ball. It will be lots of fun for practicing out            4. _______

in the playground in the afternoon with the tree                      5. _______

around us all red and yellow and everybody laughing                6. _______

and shouting. These are the happier girls I' ve ever                    7. _______

seen and I' m the happiest in all!                                 8. _______

I meant to write long letter and tell you all the                 9. _______

things I' m doing at school, but the bell was ringing,                       10. _______

so I just have to stop here.

                          Love,

                          Judy

一家賓館新開業(yè)，為吸引外國賓客，希望在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上進(jìn)行宣傳，請(qǐng)你用英語為其寫一篇文字介紹。主要內(nèi)容應(yīng)包括：

   1．地點(diǎn)：距白山入口處500米；

   2．房間及價(jià)格：?jiǎn)稳碎g(共20間)，100元／天；雙人間(共15間)，150元／天；熱水淋��；

   3．餐飲：餐廳(中、西餐)，咖啡廳(茶、咖啡)；

   4．游泳池：全天免費(fèi)開放；

   5．歡迎預(yù)定。   

注意：

 1．詞數(shù)100左右，開頭語已為你寫好；

 2．可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Welcome to Baishan Mountain Hotel

Baishan Mountain Hotel is now open for business.

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從每小題的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，找出其劃線部分與所給單詞的劃線部分讀音相同的選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該選項(xiàng)涂黑。

1. success 

A. official              B. excuse              C. correct              D. exciting

2. society      

A. achieve             B. friend         C. science      D. believe

3. theirs

A. thread               B. smooth       C. thirsty        D. health

4. raise   

A. remain                     B. certain        C. mountain    D. bargain

5. compare

A. company           B. continue     C. common    D. concert

- Could I use your computer for a few moments, please? 

-        . I’m not using it myself.

A. Come on                  B. It depends         C. Go ahead                  D. That’s great

Though he started late. Mr. Guo played the piano as well as, if      ,  

A. not better than   B. not better           C. no better than    D .better