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Up until the age of 18, I read very little. I （1） myself to what was necessary for a secondary-school （2）. I was always busy either playing soccer or falling in love. Then came the day when, as a young columnist, my main （3） was to read. And I got to like it. My head spun! An unknown passion took （4） of me. What happened? For me, it was the （5） of a new state of being in love. I began to take possession of books and to annotate them. （6） I would tell them, in an only slightly （7） way, how much I liked them or didn’t. Today, 25 years later, I （8） through my books from those days and it’s magic, finding myself face to face with the young man I once was. Sometimes I （9）him. Other times I find him （10）. Certain remarks seem （11） to me now. Others make me happy. I was right about that, I sometimes say to myself. Twenty-five years later I find the （12） trace of my thoughts, my （13） of that time. That’s why I never lend out my books. I give （14） the ones of which I have two （15） and the ones I’ve never read. But the ones I’ve（16） up cannot （17）: they have become my journals, my （18）.To let someone read them would be（19） myself up to scrutiny. I would be allowing others to break into me like a （20） breaks into a house.

Here are two elements in life that Americans do save carefully: time and labor.Americans are “slaves to nothing but the clock”, it has been said. Time is treated as if it were an almost tangible entry. In their language, there are words associated with it; time can be budgeted, saved, wasted, stolen, killed, and cut. Americans also charge for time. It is a precious commodity to them. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person’s hourglass, they cannot be replaced. They want every minute to count.Since people value time highly, they hate someone else wasting it beyond a certain courtesy point. This affects the matter of patience. In the American system of values, patience is not a high priority. Many of them have what might be called “a short fuse”. They begin to splutter and move restlessly about if they feel time is slipping away without some return- be this in terms of pleasure, work value or rest.Normally Americans do not assess their visitors in relaxed surroundings over prolonged small talk; much less do they take out for dinner, while they develop a pre-business sense of trust and rapport. Rapport to most of them is less important than performance. They seek out credentials of past performance rather than evaluating a business colleague through social manners. Since they generally assess and probe professionally rather than socially, they start talking business very quickly.Most Americans live in time segments by engagement calendars. These calendars may be divided into intervals as short as fifteen minutes. They often “give” a person two or three (or more) segments of their calendar, but in the business world they almost always have other appointments following hard on the heels of whatever they are doing. Time is therefore always ticking in their inner ear.1. “Americans are slaves to nothing but the clock.” This means .2. It can be inferred from the passage that since Americans value time highly, they .3. According to the passage, Americans evaluate their business colleague based on .4. Which of the following statement is true according to the passage?5. Which might be the best title of the passage?

Some travelers believe carriers intentionally ground half-filled flights to cut cost, only to fill up later planes. Mysterious cancellations just rub people the wrong way. One passenger complained that an American Airlines gate agent told him he didn’t have the foggiest idea why a flight had been cancelled. Wary of lost bags and long waits at check-in and luggage carousel, many passengers try to lug as much carry-on baggage as they can, slowing boarding and increasing the stress on other passengers. Stephanie Mehas, a passenger, said, “Always pack two properly sized carryons,” she says, “but many people come banging down the aisle with multiple bags, expecting to jam them all in the overhead bin.” This can be dangerous. Falling carry-on bags annually injure thousands of passengers.As to the present situation, veteran airline observer Robert Poole contends that legislation and industry promises “are stopgaps”. Greater regulation will do nothing to spur innovation, and, he notes, between 1998 and 2010, air travel in America will have expended 40 percent to one billion annual passengers, overwhelming our ready strained infrastructure. Unless the system is expended, he predicts customer service will continue its over-all downward trend. The ultimate solution, says Poole, is to complete the “unfinished revolution” that began in 1978 with government deregulation of airline routes and fares. Poole believes that the antiquated, overly bureaucratic air-traffic-control system could be privatized, following the successful model of Nav Canada, which uses high-tech equipment and modern administrative procedure. Another innovation that has shown great promise abroad is smaller, privately owned airports offering point-to-point service using new fuel-efficient jets. More of these airports will relieve the pressure on the big airports, but put pressure on the carriers to improve.1. The sentence “didn’t have the foggiest idea” in Line 3 means .2. Too much hand baggage can cause some problems EXCEPT .3. In Poole’s view, which of the following will do for a change?4. Besides privatization, Poole also puts forward another solution, which is .5. Which of the following best fits for the title?

As many as one in four U. S. workers may be chronically angry on the job, with angry employees also more likely to be bored, have low energy and feel “stuck” in their posts, according to a report Tuesday. Employees are most likely to be angered by a boss or supervisor by a fellow employee or by others in the workplace not being productive, by tight deadlines or by heavy workloads, said Donald Gibson, a professor at the Yale School of Management.“A turbulent economic environment that has produced, on the one hand, productivity and growth and, on the other, wrenching change and uncertainty, has buffeted the workplace,” the report said. “While a majority of employees are responding to these conditions with reports of workplace satisfaction there remain a substantial portion who are dissatisfied, even angry, at work,” it added. “Most visibly, anger is linked to workplace aggression, which appears to be increasing: We are weekly confronted with stories of workers taking aggressive, even violent, action particularly against supervisors.” The survey found that 25 percent of those contacted said they were at least somewhat angry at work on a continuing basis. Angry employees tend to have less energy and interest in the job, and tend also to be bored, according to Gibson. And angry employees tend to feel “stuck” in the job. The study did not speculate on what percentage of angry workers are likely to resort to violence. It did find that they feel less loyal to an employer. There have been a number of workplace shootings in the United States over the years, most recently rampages in Georgia and Alabama which left 12 dead.1. What’s the meaning of “stuck” in Line 2 Para.1?2. According to the passage, the angry workers are more likely to do the following EXCEPT ____________.3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a cause for anger?4. What can you infer from the passage?5. Which is best fit for the title?

Marriage therapists teach a skill called active listening. Each partner takes a turn listening, then paraphrases what he's heard and validates it. There is, however, a problem. It rarely works. For 80 percent of couples, active listening is too harD.It feels wooden, like emotional gymnastics. Nor does "fighting well predict happy marriages". Even happy couples have screaming matches. Every time you raise a hot-button issue, such as the in-laws or money, does your husband suddenly clam up? More than 80 percent of the time, it's the wife who brings up sticky material issues, while the husband tries to avoid discussing them. This isn't a symptom of a troubled marriage—it's true in most happy marriages.You'll often hear that staying in a bad marriage is worse for everybody concerned—especially the children—than getting divorceD.That may be true if your home is so riddled with hostility that it's like a war zone. But University of Chicago sociologist Linder J. Waite says she has found that 75 percent of couples who rated their marriages as miserable but stayed of married were happy five years later.We usually think the strongest marriages are those that survive major traumas, such as bankruptcy or an extramarital affair. But frequently, dealing with the little things, those daily annoyances, eat away at a marriage. "Every couple experiences disappointment as initial romance and passion fade and they discover all their differences," says Wolin."He doesn't do enough housework. She is too emotional. He watches too much TV. She's too lenient with the kids. People think these differences as problem, but they're actually opportunities to build marital muscles."1.Which of the following is NOT true about active listening?2.The phrase "clam up" in Line 5 means（） .3.We know from Paragraph 1 that the author thinks that a happy marriage （） .4.What is implied in the passage about divorce in the passage?5.What's the main idea of the last paragraph?

The French education system is very different from the English one in its aims, its organization and its results. The French child too, the raw material of this education is unlike the English child and differences in the raw material may well account for differences in the processes employed.The French child, boy or girl, gives one the impression of being intellectually more precocious than the product of the chillier English climate. This is encouraged by his upbringing among adults, not in a nursery. English parents readily adapt their conversation to the child’s point of view and interest themselves more in his games and childish preoccupation. The English are, as regards national character, younger than the French, or, to put it another way, there is in England no deep division between the life of the child and that of the grown man. The art of talking to children in the kind of language they understand is so much an English art that most of the French children’s favorite books are translations from the English.French parents on the other hand, do their best to develop the child’s intelligence as rapidly as possible. They have little patience with childish ideas even if they do not go so far as to look upon childhood as an unfortunate but necessary prelude to adult life. Not that they need to force the child, for he usually lends himself willingly to the process, and enjoys the effect of his unexpectedly clever remarks and unusual sayings and of his bright judgment of men and things. It is not without significance that the French mother instead of appealing to the child’s heart by asking him to be good appeals to his reason by asking him to be wise. Reasonableness is looked for early in France, and the age of reason is fixed at seven years.1. In comparing French and English education the author indicates that .2. The passage suggests that the French child .3. The word “prelude” in the phrase “…, but necessary prelude to adult life” (in the 2nd sentence of Paragraph 3) probably means 4. In comparison with French children, English children .5. French mothers .

73.5 percent of major U.S. firms report that they record and review their employees’ communications and activities on the job. The larger the company, the more likely it is to engage in monitoring and surveillance activities, according to a survey. Broken down by business category, survey respondents in the financial services sector lead the packs when it comes to monitoring their employees e-mail and Internet connections.Weber says he sees companies go through a “life cycle” with their Internet experience. When they first get connected, companies see a surge of activity and an immediate drop-off in productivity. After about two or three weeks, Internet use levels off, Weber notes. Weber observes that among his clients, he’s seeing a trend where employers are letting the life cycle run its course. In other cases, Weber says his clients are capturing the information, but not really doing anything about it. One thing the experts all agree on is that if you use the Internet and provide access to your employees, you should have a policy in place that defines what you deem to be permissible use by employees. Weber believes that no company wants to be in the rote of Big Brother, but still must protect one of its most valuable assets. Nor are employers looking to micro-manage their employees. Many companies are viewing use of the Internet as similar to the phone, and operating with the philosophy that incidental personal use is okay. “But some clients don’t see a need to restrict access,” he explains. For certain the issues that surround monitoring employee Internet use aren’t going to quiet down anything soon, the experts say. “Maybe the simplest solution is to just allow a certain percentage to go to employee use.”1. In monitoring the Internet use of the employees, which of the following take the lead?2. Which of the following may rightly describe the lifecycle of Internet use3. What can we say about most companies’ attitude towards employee Internet use?4. We know from this passage that experts think ____________.5. Which of the following may serve as the best title?

Plastic sheeting should be wrapped around the tree in winner to ____________it from the wind and the frost.

I can't ____________my eager when I hear of people being cruel to animals.

This paper will examine relevant theories and research findings concerning listening and second language acquisition and identify conditions that may ____________listening.

Both sides at the conflict have agreed temporarily to ____________hostilities.

This style of cooking is ____________to South-Eastern provinces.

It is ____________that makes the female horse to bend down and lick its newborn foal.

Most of the civil servants involved in the affair have been successfully ____________and sentenced.

It is very kind of you to offer, but any more pudding would simply be ____________.

The world economic recession put an____________ end to the steel market upturn that began in 2002.

She ____________ and lowered her head when she couldn't answer the question in the presence of her classmates.

Some people feel there is a great deal of ____________between religion and science.

According to ____________sources, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is to be up righted under a restoration plan by the Italian Government.

A sensitive person is one who is easily hurt or ____________by things that people do or say.

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