giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel!” “No seriously,” I said. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.
“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor everyday. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!” she said. “There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years older. If I am 87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. But every minute counts for young men,” she added.
“The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”
She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Song of Rose”. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics（歌词）and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. 88. Rose made herself known to the author in a ______ manner. A. serious
B. cold
C. humorous
D. crazy
89. From the information provided in the passage, we know ______. A. Rose finished the college degree within a year
B. Rose did realize her dream of meeting a rich husband and getting married through college education
C. Rose enjoyed her campus life very much D. Rose grew so old that she stopped playing 90. Rose delivered the speech ______. A. at the graduation
B. which she prepared carefully D. to challenge all the other speakers
C. ended with “The Song of Rose” 91. According to her speech, ______.
A. whenever you have a dream, you succeed
B. all people don’t grow up while growing older C. Rose usually regretted having done something
D. a nine-year-old is as old as a 87-year-old if he doesn’t do anything
D
Proverbs are quite common in spoken English. We do not normally put them in a composition or letter. Sometimes it is helpful if you know what common proverbs mean. Here are a few examples:
1)\This proverb is also used to apply to many things and not only to dogs. If you have been cheated at a shop, you will not go to the same shop again.
2)\ bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. \better to catch one bird than to see two birds in a bush but not be able to catch them. Thus this means that what you have already got is better than the chance of being able to get something bigger in future.
3)\each other's way and do a job.
4)\ship is in trouble at sea, another ship may come to help it. The second ship can send small boats to rescue people. However, it may first pour oil on the sea to make the sea less rough.
5)\槽)\马房), the manger is the place where the horse's food is put. Sometimes a dog will sleep in the manger and bark when a horse comes to get its food. The dog does not want to eat the hay in the manger but it will not let the horse eat it.
6)\plan or against it. He is sitting on a fence between two opposing sides, perhaps waiting to see which side will win.
7)\ piper is a musician. The man who employs or pays a musician can say what tunes the man will play. Thus this means that if a man provides the money for a plan, he can say how it will be carried out.
8)\ou can't get blood out of a stone.\that you cannot get something from a person who has not got any of the things you want. e. g. you cannot get a million dollars from a poor man.
92. Peter had a bicycle which was much too small for him but he did not want to let his younger brother ride on it. His mother was angry and said to him: . A. You can't get blood out of a stone C. The early bird gets the worm
B. Don't be a dog in a manger D. Don't be a horse in the manger
93. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a quarrel. Their friend, Mr. Brown, went to talk to them. When he came back, he told his wife that he had been trying to help the Smiths by . A. pouring oil on troubled waters C. being a dog in a manger
B. getting blood out of a stone D. not to pour oil on waters
94.Mr Wang paid for a new school. Some people did not like the design of the school but they did
not argue with Mr. Wang because . A. he was sitting on the fence
B. once bitten, twice shy
D. a bird in the hand is worth two on the bush
C. he who pays the piper calls the tune
95.Mrs Chen wanted to buy a new dress. Her husband suggested that she buy it from a shop near their home. Mrs. Chen disagreed because she had been cheated by that shop. Then she said: \won't go there again because \
A. a bird in the band is worth two in the bush B.I am sitting on the fence C. once bitten, twice shy
D. too many cooks spoil the broth
96.Mr. Brown had quite a good job in Hong Kong but he thought that if he went to Singapore he might get a much better job with more money and a large house. His wife did not want him to leave his job in Hong Kong and she reminded him that .
A. a bird in the hand is worth two on the bush B. too many cooks spoil the broth C. you can't get blood out of a stone
D. he who plays the piper calls the tune
E
Have you ever seen any students whose trousers hang so low that you can see their underwear (内裤)? What do you think of that? Fashionable? Some of today's teenagers are big fans of such a look. But recently this trend has been at the centre of an argument in Italian middle schools.
The headmaster of a school in central Italy has asked students to stop wearing low-rise jeans (低腰牛仔裤) that expose underwear and parts of the body. His request came after a class trip, when he saw one boy's baggy trousers slide (滑) to his feet. He pointed out that this way of dressing is not suitable for school.
But in Italy, a nation that takes fashion very seriously, the suggestion caused a debate among parents, teachers and students. The issue is whether the head teacher's request will limit students' freedom — or whether dress in Italian schools is too casual (随意的).
A parents' group praised the move in favour of good taste, while others advised schools to stop worrying about fashion and fix up old school buildings.
\do not want to kick fashion out,\the headmaster explained. \extremes (极端) of fashion like this are not right in school.\Many other schools have now requested that their students also stop wearing such trousers.
Most students have simply ignored (忽略) the request. Ludovica Gaudio,14,wore extremely low trousers exposing orange underwear in class. It was cold, so she wore a matching orange scarf (围巾).
Another 14-year-old said she should probably respect the request, simply for practical reasons. \don't really feel comfortable in those sort of jeans\Sarah Lattanzi. \when dressed like that, it's quite cold and I am afraid my stomach will ache.\97. What led to the argument in Italian middle schools?
A. Students' craze for fashions. B. Clothes that are too exposing.
C. Students ignoring dress codes (着装规则). D. Students' underwear. 98 Which of the following supports the headmaster's request? A. Fashion should be taken seriously. B. Fashion should not be followed in school.
C. Students should have their freedom in choosing what they wear. D. Students should be encouraged to have good taste in clothes. 99.The argument against the headmaster's request is that ______.
A. schools should pay attention to things more important than students' clothes B. fashion should not be followed in school C. dress in Italian schools is too casual
D. low-rise jeans can do harm to youngster's health 100. The purpose of this story is to ______.
A. show Chinese students that wearing very fashionable clothes in school is under attack in other countries, too
B. show that dress code is necessary even in a country like Italy
C. tell us that a debate started in Italian middle schools over the way students dress in school D. let us see that Italian students react differently to schools’ requests
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CHILDREN IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
101. __________. She recounts (详细叙述) in detail how she used to be told to respect her elders and betters（上司）. 102. __________. Children in her days, she continues, were expected to be seen and not heard, but these days you are lucky if you ever hear parents telling their children to mind her manners.
103. __________. 104. __________. It always occurs to me that perhaps those long, stiff(硬挺的), black clothes were so heavy to a little girl that she hadn't enough breath left to be talkative, let alone(更不用说) naughty. It must have been a dull and lonely life too, for she stayed mainly at home during her childhood, while her brothers were sent to school from an early age.
However, my childhood was much freer than Granny's. I went to school with my brother. I played football with him and his friends. We all spoke a common language, and we got up to the same mischief（恶作剧）. 105. __________.
A. Of course when you look at pictures of her parents you feel sure that,
with a father as strict-looking as that, you too would have been \ and not heard\Beside him sits his wife, with their children
around her; Granny and her elder brothers.
B. If you give her the chance she then takes out of her writing desk the
old photograph album which she keeps there, and which she never tires of displaying.
C. I would have died if I had had to stay indoors, wearing tight, stiff
clothes.
D. I'm beginning to think whether my grandmother was right when she
complains, as she frequently does, that children nowadays aren't as well-behavioured as they used to be.
E. When Granny was young, she was leading a much happier life. Little
children were expected to talk the elders loudly and noisily. F. She was taught to speak when she was spoken to and when she went
out on her own, she was reminded to say \hank you\
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第二节:课文填空（共5小题。每小题1分，计5分。）
A
If a man _______(116) in a wedding _______(117) in Brunei, he has to sit with the bridegroom and the other men. The bride and the other women have to sit in a different area. Another difference is that we serve food, soft drinks, tea and coffee, but no _______(118)! And you probably wouldn’t get much sleep as we play drums to celebrate the wedding for hours—sometimes all night!
B
Apart from the _______(119) problems caused by wars and conflicts, the UN helps countries with other problems such as lack of education, lack of food, _______(120), disasters and disease. At a UN meeting in 2000, all 191 members agreed to try and meet eight development goals by the year 2015.