Passage 1

My friend has a big police dog named Kim. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Kim for a long walk in the park. Kim likes walking very much.Kim likes walking very much.

Police dogs are often very smart.They can do many things for people.

One Sunday afternoon a man visited my friend.He talked to my friend for a long time. They talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Kim for his walk, but the man still stayed. Kim became very worried about his walk in the park. He walked around the living-room sometimes and at last sat down in front of the man and looked at him. But the man went on talking.

After thirty minutes, Kim couldn’t stand it. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down in front of the man again but this time he held the man’s hat in his mouth. 41. Who is Kim?

A.A boy B.A police dog C.A policeman D.A cat 42.What do you think of the dog?

A.dangerous B.small C.smart D.friendly 43.Why did Kim told the man’s hat in his mouth?

A.Kim liked the man’s hat B.Kim showed he was hungry C.He was relaxed D.Kim wanted the man to go away

Passage 2

You are on your way home after school.Suddenly,you see a man lying on the road.He is badly injured but the ambulance hasn’t come yet.What would you do?Middle school students in Louisville,the US,would give the man a cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR).It is a type of first aid.That is because they learn CPR in class.

Louisville started the CPR Anytime program months ago.The program teaches middle school students CPR with face and lung dummies and DVDs in class. “We know CPR can help save people’s lives.”said Joseph Laskowski,who works for the program. “The more people can use CPR,the more help injured people can get. And we know that the best way to teach CPR skills to everyone is to build it into our school.” Through the program,students learn and practise the CPR skills on a dummy while watching a DVD.Each student can also take back home a set of face and lung dummies so that they can use them to share CPR with family and friends.

Shawna Jackson is a 12-year-old student at Lassiter Middle School in Louisville. In one class,she learned to press down on a dummy and do chest compression.She said that she found CPR was very difficult when she tried it at first,but now she feels “it’s quite easy”. She is very glad that she has learned this important skill for saving people’s lives. “If I’m somewhere and I see someone who is injured, I can help him or her until the ambulance arrives,”said Jackson.

44. Why can the middle school students in Louisville, the US, do the CPR for people? A.Because they major in medicine B.Because they learn CPR in class C.Because they learn CPR form their family D.Because they enjoy watching DVDs about CPR 45.What does the underlined word “them” refer to? A.chest compression B.some injured people C.CPR Anytime program D.face and lung dummies 46.What can we learn form the passage?

A.Louisville started the CPR Anytime program years ago. B.Teaching students CPR is the only way to teach CPR skills.

C.All the students and teachers in Louisville learned the CPR skills.

D.If necessary,Shawna Jackson can help to save people’s lives with CPR skills. 47.What’s the best title for the passage?

A.Types of the First Aid B.Advice on CPR Skills

C.CPR Program in Louisville D.Shawna Jackson, a Wonderful Girl

Passage 3

One year, a college in the Unites States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold. The high reward attracted so many people, but in the nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, and it is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement.

One normal day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. It turned out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. Some experts in the college doubted it, but in order not to let her down, those seeds finally took root in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year: the field was covered by pure white marigold.

Therefore, the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new focus.

The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her right children were totally against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics couldn’t complete what the experts could never do, so her thought was only a day dream.

Still, the old woman didn’t change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose one faintest from those golden and brown flowers and get the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose……. Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman’s husband died, her children flew far and high, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the desire to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart.

Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold which was not nearly white, but as white as sliver or snow.

A problem even experts couldn’t deal with was solved by an old woman who didn’t understand genetics. Wasn’t it a miracle?

To take root in the heart, even the most common seed can grow into a miracle! 48.According to the passage, ________ marigold is unusual. A. white B. purple C. brown D. golden

49.It can be learned from the passage that ________.

A. the children didn’t agree on their mother’s decision B. the woman needed the great reward for her big family C. the experts also succeeded in growing the white marigold D. the woman took good care of the flowers instead of her family

50. The woman successfully grew the white marigold at last because she ________. A. was luckier than experts B. put her heart into flowers C. got support from her family D. studies the seed genetics well 51. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. the difficulties B. the possibility of going beyond experts C. the unforgettable development of marigold D. the importance of holding on to dreams

Passage 4

How long are you willing to wait for a webpage to open before you start to lose your patience? Half a minute? A few seconds? Google engineers have discovered that even 400 milliseconds―as short as the blink

of an eye―is too long for most Internet users.

A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice such a small time difference, but it does cause them to stop searching, reported The New York Times. “Without question, nobody likes to wait,” said Arvind Jain, a Google engineer. “Every millisecond matters.”

Nowadays, millions of smart phones and computers are continually gathering and sending out information. With so many people downloading maps, sports videos, news and restaurant recommendations, you can get digital “traffic jams”. Meanwhile, users are expecting faster and faster service.

Google found that if one website is 250 milliseconds slower than another website, then people will visit it less often. This is why technology companies are now competing to be the fastest. Google said people do expect different things from different websites because they realize not all loading times are

the same. For example, a person will be more patient waiting for a video to load than for a search result.

Even so, four out of five online users will click away if a video takes too long to load. This makes it difficult for video websites to choose between the quality of pictures and fast loading times.

Trying to get a higher speed has always been part of the history of the Internet. In the 1990s, when the World Wide Web first started to become popular, it was very crowded and slow; people called it the “World Wide Wait”. But engineers managed to fight the problem with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber optic cables for sending in high speed; they improved software so it would work more smoothly; they placed computer servers all around the world to be nearer to users; all this increased speed.

Nowadays we can enjoy much faster Internet. Famous search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing usually find search results in less than a second. However, in order to meet the requirement of Internet users, these tycoons should never stop their steps.

52. The report from The New York Times suggests that_______. A. A millisecond is one thousandth of a second.

B. 400 milliseconds is not so long for most Internet users. C. A millisecond has nothing to do with the Internet speed. D. A millisecond really makes a difference to the Internet users. 53.The engineers did something to improve the speed, including _____. a. making software work more smoothly

b. laying a number of fiber optic cables inside c. placing computer servers throughout the world d. developing the quality of pictures on the Internet A. a b c B. b c d C. a c d D. a b d 54.What does the underlined sentence mean?