For the 17 years my life was very happy. Then the first sad thing happened. My mother became very ill. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room. She said, “Victor and Elizabeth, I’m very happy because you love each other, and because one day you’ll get married. Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in the family, my dear? I can die happy if you look after them when I have gone.”

My mother died and we were very sad, because we loved her so much. Elizabeth was brave and helped us; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother’s death. The time came for me to go to university(大學(xué)). I didn’t want to leave my sad family, but we all knew that I should go. It was hard to leave, too, because the parents of my good friend Henry would not let him go to university with me. So I had gone alone.

On my first day at university I met Professor Waldman. He gave a wonderful talk to all the students. He ended his talk by saying, “Some of you will become the greatest scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discover everything that you can.”

After the professor’s talk, I thought very carefully. I remembered the storm when I was 15; I remembered how the lightning had destroyed the tree. From then on, I wanted to use electricity to help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life. I decided to work on these two things.

I started to work the next day. I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist.

The professor and other important scientists helped me. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day’s holiday during the next two years. After two years, I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was the best in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important question of all. How does life begin? Is it possible to put life into dead things? To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, month after month, I followed death, so it was a dark and terrible time.

I built a tall mast(桅桿)about 150 metres high, which is higher than the tallest building in the city, to catch lightning and send the electricity down to my machine in the lab. I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.

Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life.

47. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

48. Victor did all the following during his research in the university EXCEPT that ______.

49. According to the writer, the secret of life is to _______.

50. Which is the correct order about the life of Victor?

① Victor’s mother passed away.

② Victor got help from the professor and other scientists.

③ Victor went to university and attended the professor’s talk.

④ Victor found the answer to giving life to things that were dead.

⑤ Victor experienced a storm, seeing the lightning destroying the tree.

Tickets for the NBA basketball game are going on sale . Lots of people like to go to watch basketball. Most of them are going to cheer for their teams. However, there are never enough tickets for everyone. So some people come the day before and sleep in front of the ticket office. At night, when they are waiting, some people play music, others dance and sing, and still others talk about their favorite players. Sometimes they argue because they like different teams. After waiting all night to buy tickets, they will be too tired to enjoy the game.

(　 ) 46. Why do many people like to go to watch the basketball games?

A. It’s easy to buy tickets.　 B. They like to see their favorite teams play.

C. They have free tickets. D. They live near the basketball court.

(　 ) 47. Why is it hard to buy tickets?

A. The ticket office is far away.　　　　　　 　 B. The tickets are very expensive.

C. There aren’t enough tickets for everyone. D. There are too many tickets.

(　 ) 48. What do some people do to buy the ticket?

A. Go to the ticket office after the game.　

B. Ask a basketball player for help.

C. Pay by credit card.　　　　　 D. Wait in front of the ticket office.

(　 ) 49. What do they do when they are waiting for the ticket office to open?

A. Sing , dance, and talk　　　　 B. Play basketball.

C. Cheer for their teams.　　　　 D. Go on sale.

(　 ) 50. Which is the best title（題目）?

A. Waiting to buy tickets　　　　　 B. NBA Basketball Game

C. Tickets Office　　　　　　　　　　 　 D. Enjoy the game

A good reader is like a driver very much. He must change his reading speed(速度)to fit(適應(yīng))what he is reading and what he is reading for, just as a driver does to fit the road situation(狀況).

A good reader may read at 1,000WPM(每分鐘……詞)when he looks for something for a report in the library. But once he finds what he needs, he may slow down to 100 WPM. A good reader may read newspapers and story books at 600 WPM. But he may read his science or math books at 150 WPM. Just as a driver has a wide(廣泛的)change of driving speed, so a good reader has a wide change of reading speed.

( )46. The writer thinks that a good reader can ______.

A. read at 1,000WPM　　　　　　　　 B. read as fast as he can

C. spend more time reading D. change the reading speed as he needs

( )47. _______ decides the speed of reading.

A. How many is reading for　　　　　 B. What he is reading for

C. Where he is reading D. When he is reading

( )48. A good reader may read fastest _______.

A. when he reads newspapers and story books

B. when he reads something most useful to him

C.when he is trying to work out a math problem

D. when he is trying to find something for his report

( )49. The underlined word “once” in the passage means _______.

A. one time　　 B. only　　　 C. as soon as　　　 D. at once

( )50. Which is the best title(題目)for this passage?

A. The Importance of Having Different Reading Speed

B. The Difference between Driving and Reading

C. The Best Way of Fast Reading　　

D. A Good Reader and His Reading Speed

Going to sleep may seem quite boring compared with all the fun things you do while you are awake, but there's a lot going on in your mind and body while you are sleeping.

Sleep, in fact, is as important to your survival（生存） as eating and drinking. Sleep improves your mood, makes you a better athlete and helps you remember and understand what you learned during the day. While you sleep, your body temperature drops. Your heart beats more slowly, A chemical that controls growth, which is called a hormone(荷爾蒙),moves into your bloodstream. Scientists think that sleep brings back energy and improves your immune (免疫)system.

Sleep is like a school day: it's divided into different stages. When you are awake, your brain waves move quickly. As you begin to relax and fall into the first stage of sleep, your brain produces slower-moving waves and you lose awareness (意識(shí)) of your surroundings（環(huán)境）．As you fall into deeper sleep, your body repairs itself from the normal wear and tear of daily life. Then, as you begin to drift back into a lighter sleep, your mind becomes more alert(警覺(jué)的), and your dreams begin. You are in REM sleep.

REM is the name for the rapid eye movement that happens while you are dreaming. During REM sleep, your eyes move back and forth behind, as though you were watching a movie.

During other stages of sleep, you might move in bed, but during REM sleep you're not making any movement, That's probably because if you could move, your body would act out your dreams. As you get closer to waking up in the morning, you spend more time in REM sleep than in deep sleep, so you dream more. Researchers know that during REM sleep the part of the brain that deals with learning and thinking is very active.

Getting too little sleep can affect your personality. Experts recommend that children get at least nine hours of sleep a night.

50. Which is the right order during your sleep?

　 ① your body repairs itself from the normal wear and tear of daily life

　 ② your brain produces slower-moving waves

　 ③ your dreams begin

　 ④ you lose awareness of your surroundings

　 A.①③②④　　　　 B.②④①③　　　 C.④①③②　　　　 D.②④③①

51. In which of the stage/stages of sleep do you have the most dreams?

　　 A. Light sleep. B. Deep sleep.

C. REM sleep. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. The first two stages of sleep.

52. Which of the following is NOT true?

　　 A. You don't move while you are dreaming in REM sleep.

　　 B. During REM sleep, the whole brain is active.

　　 C. The closer to waking in the morning, the more dreams you have.

　　 D. Hormones have something to do with your growth.

53. According to the scientists and experts, _______.

A. adults get at least nine hours of sleep a night

　　 B. there's nothing going on in your mind while you're sleeping

　　 C. sleep have little impact(影響) on our personality

　　 D. sleep can make us energetic and healthy

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence if you translate it according to your own language.

　Language do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握) the rules(規(guī)則) for word order in the study of English, too. If the sentences put words in a wrong order, the listeners can’t understand the speakers’ sentences easily. Sometimes when the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

　“She only likes apples.” “Only she likes apples.”

　“I’ve seen the film already.” “I have already seen the film.”

　When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神實(shí)際) of the language and use it as the English speakers do.

(　 )46. From the passage we know that 　　 when we are learning English.

　　 A. we shouldn’t put every word into our own language

　　 B. we shouldn’t look up every word in the dictionary

　　 C. we need to put every word into our own language

　　 D. we must read word by word

(　 )47. The writer thinks it is 　　 in learning English.

　　 A. difficult to understand different sounds

　　 B. possible to remember the word order

　　 C. important to master the rules in different ways

　　 D. easy to master the rules for word order

(　 )48. We can learn from the passage that 　　 .

　　 A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words

　 B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence

　 C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning

　 D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of the sentence must be different

(　 )49. “She only likes apples,” 　　

　 A. is the same as “Only she likes apple”.

　 B. is different from “Only she likes apple”.

　 C. means “She likes fruit except apples”.

　 D. means “She doesn’t like apples”.

(　 )50. Which is the best title for this passage?

A. Different Orders, Different Meanings　　　　 B. How to speak English?

C.　　 How to Put English into Our Own Language? D. How to Learn English?