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1.21 Anne-Marie Garrard was shocked when it was announced that she had won the 22 Personal Assistant of the Year award. ‘The other candidates seemed me 23 to be very strong, and I have to say I found that the selection procedure really 24 hard,' she says. 'I didn't think I had any chance of winning. When I heard my 25 name, my legs were so weak I could only hardly stand up,' she laughs. So 26 how is 'the best' personal assistant chosen from a group of so extremely good 27 and very different individuals? The final decision was reached after a 28 day-long session of the tests, interviews and exercises. Garrard believes 29 the skills she uses in her job helped her how to perform well. For instance, although 30 most of her work is for her company's Managing Director, she works for six bosses 31 in all, so she always tries out to be prepared for anything that might happen. 32 As for the future, her firm has closed for its summer break now; as soon as 33 they will open again, there is a pay rise waiting for her. But Garrard is not going to relax. She says, 'There's always room for personal development.You must keep trying to improve.

2.My mother is an English teacher. She is a beautiful lady. She has a round face and bright eyes. She is always smiling. My mother is a good teacher. She works very hard. Every day she comes to the school early and is always the last one to leave. She speaks very good English and she teaches well. She also tells her students what are the right things to do. She is a motherly teacher. She treats her students as her own children and takes good care of them. She is so kind that everyone loves her. This is my mother. I feel so lucky to have her as my mother and I love her. I hope that someday I can be a teacher just like her.

3.“She didn't ask me, so I didn't help her?”“You mean to say, you would have helped her ?” 选项： A、if she asked you B、 if she were to ask you C、 had she asked you D、 were she to ask you

4.完形填空Since my mother moved to live with us in the city, she has been__1___heavier than before. As time went by, her health got___2__So I had to take her to see a doctor. My mother was told to lose weight by__3___exercise every day. She had no choice but to follow__4___the doctor said. I told her that I __5___exercise with her every morning. On the first morning, she got up very early__6___ ran with me in our neighborhood. I tried to run slowly so that she could follow me. After running__7___some minutes, I told her the proper ways of exercise and the importance of eating healthy food. She listened to me carefully. It made me___8__that she told me everything very patiently when I was a kid. On the second morning, I praised her for keeping running with me. But after two weeks, she wanted to__9___running because she thought the two-week exercise didn't work at all. To encourage her, I taught her how to use the facilities（设施） for exercise in our neighborhood. She began to exercise again. With my help, it took her one month to develop a good habit of daily exercise. "Thank you, my dear daughter. Exercise brings health and happiness to me. I will __10___ worry about my health. " Her words touched my heart deeply. 选项： A: in B: at C: for D: with

5.I was ____ when she found out I had a crush on her.

6. Why did I build a small room for my daughter? 选项： A、 So she could play music really loud. B、 So she could have privacy. C、 The room was not for her. D、 Because she wanted a desk.

7.That Friday after work as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary.

8.中国大学MOOC: What message in the following text can be delayed to create suspense?It was my girlfriend’s birthday. Early in the morning I told her that I forgot to prepare her birthday gift and would give it to her the next day. She was disappointed but still happy. Then I just gave her a piece of chocolate and told her that I wouldn’t go home with her after school. In fact I decided to give her a CD later. At 5:15 pm I left school a bit earlier than usual, and hurried to catch the bus which my girlfriend would take at the next stop every day. Bus 242 came and I got onto it. It was the very bus I was sure that she would get on at the next stop. I sat quietly at the back of the bus so that she could not see me so easily. The bus stopped and she got on. She stood at the back door. I walked toward her quietly and gave her a great surprise with the CD she had always dreamed of.

9.Part 3 Reading Comprehension (40 points)Task 1 Read the following passage. Choose the best answer.My hobby made me money!We all know that hobbies can be a great way of relaxing, learning new things and making new friends. But did you know that some hobbies can even make you money? This is what Vanessa Hughes found out last year.The nineteen-year-old told us: “I’ve always loved cooking and baking. Since I was seven or eight years old, I’ve been in the kitchen making my family meals and snacks. Last summer, it was my best friend’s birthday, and I decided to organize a surprise party for her. I didn’t have enough money to buy lots of ready-made food, so I made my own.”The surprise was a huge success and Vanessa was surprised when people kept asking her “Who prepared all this delicious food?” At the end of the party, a friend asked her if she would cook for his mother’s birthday party. Vanessa said: “He offered me money, but I wouldn’t take money from a friend. I just said I’d do it.”The next party Vanessa cooked for went equally well, and by the end of that one, Vanessa had three more bookings for parties over the next month. She said: “By then I realized I was going to have to start charging some money for my services. At the beginning, though, I only asked for a small amount to cover the ingredients I used.”Since these early days, Vanessa hasn’t stopped. She’s now busy every weekend, cooking for parties. “I love it”, she says “… and I feel so lucky that my hobby is helping me earn money. I’m going to use the money to help me to go to college—to study courses of catering! 3. Why did Vanessa not want to take money for her cooking? 选项：A、She didn’t need the money. B、She didn’t think her cooking was good enough to pay for. C、She didn’t want to take money from friends. D、She wasn’t sure how much to ask for.

10.You know how it is when we get together. They talk about impossible dreams. “If I won the lottery (彩票), I would …”, “If I had plenty of money, I would …” But I never told anyone about my dream. I was afraid they would laugh if they knew. My aunt died and left everything to me. So I went around the world in search of the perfect woman that I really loved.I first went to America, but I didn’t find I was looking for. The women I met were either too thin or too fat, too quiet or too noisy. So I started off for Spain. Most of the women I met were much too self-confident. Then I went to China. The women there were lovely, but much too shy, and I like taller women. Finally, I found myself back in my own country. I was sad.Well, you can never guess what happened. In my own country, I found the woman I was looking for! Funnily enough, she lived near me, and I was surprised that I had not noticed her before. We met in the local shop. She dropped her bag. I picked it up and give it to her. I knew at that moment that she was the woman for me. But I wanted to be very careful. I didn’t want to say or do anything that might frighten her away. So I just made small talk as we walked back to the car park.Back home, I planned to win her heart. After a few more meetings, I finally invited her to have dinner with me. She accepted. Everything went well during dinner and seemed to enjoy the food. Finally, I told her about my search.“That’s amazing (令人惊奇的)！” she said. “I’ve just come into a lot of money, too, and I have decided to go round the world in search of the perfect man. I think I’ve found him.” Question： What’s the writer’s dream? 选项： A:To win the lottery.; B:To have plenty of money.; C:To travel around the world.; D:To marry a perfect woman.; E:To meet many women.

11.(　　) She _____fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A 、must beB 、had beenC 、could beD 、must have been

12.What message in the following text can be delayed to create suspense? It was my girlfriend’s birthday. Early in the morning I told her that I forgot to prepare her birthday gift and would give it to her the next day. She was disappointed but still happy. Then I just gave her a piece of chocolate and told her that I wouldn’t go home with her after school. In fact I decided to give her a CD later. At 5:15 pm I left school a bit earlier than usual, and hurried to catch the bus which my girlfriend would take at the next stop every day. Bus 242 came and I got onto it. It was the very bus I was sure that she would get on at the next stop. I sat quietly at the back of the bus so that she could not see me so easily. The bus stopped and she got on. She stood at the back door. I walked toward her quietly and gave her a great surprise with the CD she had always dreamed of.选项： A:The day being her birthday; B:What gift it was; C:The bus number; D:The identity of my girlfriend

13.She's not beautiful,but I find her very___________________ because she seems so full of life and fun.

14.She is a cute, quiet girl. As a daughter, she has no secrets from her mother, who is very pleased with her. But these days she has become not so open as before. She has a diary that she keeps under lock and key. Her mother cannot help worrying about her. What will I do if she falls in love, which is too early for her age? After all she is reaching the dangerous time. These thoughts have caused trouble in the mother’s mind.One weekend, the girl came to tell her mother that she was going to the cinema with her schoolmates and would return late. This was the first time her mother had agreed, and she couldn’t help worrying because her daughter had never been away at night before. The mother waited till nine. She decided to go out to meet her daughter. Just at that time, she heard the noise of a car parking. She went to the window and saw her daughter waving goodbye to a boy. Her heart missed a beat. When the girl came in, the mother was watching TV, pretending nothing had happened. Mum, I’m back. Yeah. Sorry to be late. Still sitting up? Yes. Oh, that…Who is that boy? The daughter got a surprise. Ah…He is my monitor. He gave me a lift on his way home. Mum, I’m going to bed. All right. Go to sleep early.The next morning, when the mother went to the daughter’s room to do some cleaning, she found her diary left on the bed. After a few minutes’ thinking, she at last opened it to the page of the night before. It read: Mum, it is love that made you ask, but it would show your understanding of me if you hadn’t.

15.[单选题]Just Introduce YourselfIt’s so easy to walk into your first job and feel like a stranger in a strange land. But you don’t have to stay that way, and you shouldn’t.You have to remind yourself to kick your shyness away and introduce yourself. Just a handshake will do. Ask the supervisor who hired you to introduce you around a bit. That’s the best way to make contacts. Then you’ll know what to do and say when you meet these people again.Don’t do what my friend Sue did at her first job at Entertainment Weekly. “That is one of my biggest regrets: I hardly talked to anyone at all when I was there. I was scared and just thought people would talk to me first. For a long time, I was hung up on the thought that if someone was older, I respected them automatically. And even if someone started on Monday, and I started Tuesday, I just felt they had more experience. In the area I worked for four months, I hardly spoke to these people,” she said．“Of course, now I realize that was the most stupid thing. If I could do that again, I’d remember that it’s so important not to feel shy about introducing yourself. It’s not like you have to be very bold, ready to take over the place. Just introduce yourself and ask if there is anything you can do for them. That breaks the ice.”Sue believes that if she had introduced herself around a bit, there would be just no telling what other opportunities or what other acquaintances she might have now. Not that she regrets where she is now at all. But had she talked to more people at her first job, “maybe it would have helped me get somewhere sooner,” she said.How do people usually feel when meeting people at their first job? A Shy B Puzzled C Curious D Excited E F

16.She _______ 50 or so when I first met her at the conference. 选项： A、must be B、had been C、could be D、must have been

17.She ________ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.选项： A:must be; B:had been; C:could be; D:must have been

18.A. hardworking B. confidentC. sharingD. easy-goingE. optimisticF. generous One of my best friends is called Amy. She is ___________ and she has a lot of friends. She is _______, so she is good at Chinese, math, art and English. She is very helpful. She often comes to my house and helped me with my study. She also likes _________interesting things with others. Besides, she is quite _________ about herself, and she always shows her confident smile. She is also ________, because she is never afraid of failure, and she can overcome all difficulties she meets in her life. She is also _________. When her friends’ birthdays come, she often gives them pretty presents. And she likes to donate money to the poor. I like her very much.

19.[单选题]Just Introduce YourselfIt’s so easy to walk into your first job and feel like a stranger in a strange land. But you don’t have to stay that way, and you shouldn’t.You have to remind yourself to kick your shyness away and introduce yourself. Just a handshake will do. Ask the supervisor who hired you to introduce you around a bit. That’s the best way to make contacts. Then you’ll know what to do and say when you meet these people again.Don’t do what my friend Sue did at her first job at Entertainment Weekly. “That is one of my biggest regrets: I hardly talked to anyone at all when I was there. I was scared and just thought people would talk to me first. For a long time, I was hung up on the thought that if someone was older, I respected them automatically. And even if someone started on Monday, and I started Tuesday, I just felt they had more experience. In the area I worked for four months, I hardly spoke to these people,” she said．“Of course, now I realize that was the most stupid thing. If I could do that again, I’d remember that it’s so important not to feel shy about introducing yourself. It’s not like you have to be very bold, ready to take over the place. Just introduce yourself and ask if there is anything you can do for them. That breaks the ice.”Sue believes that if she had introduced herself around a bit, there would be just no telling what other opportunities or what other acquaintances she might have now. Not that she regrets where she is now at all. But had she talked to more people at her first job, “maybe it would have helped me get somewhere sooner,” she said."I was hung up on the thought" in Paragraph 3 probably means "I_____". A believed B guessed C learned D admitted E F

20.Which of the following sentences is grammatically incorrect?? As reading this book, I have picked up more than one hundred printing mistakes.She nearly passed out after she heard the news.I have distrusted her ever since she cheated me.She smiles when you praise her.

21.What does the writer mean when she says "I would plan my college career path better by exploring career choices earlier in the game"? 选项： A:Her college career would have been more successful,if she had taken a more active part in college sport activities. B:Her college career would have been better planned,if she had checked all future job choices earlier in her college path. C:Her college career would have been better arranged,if she hadn't played so many computer games. D:Her college career would have been more satisfactory,if she had been good at team games.

22.(　　)、Susan Brown was in a family way when she was seventeen, and became a mother by eighteen. Sadly, the same year, her father died. She was heartbroken and had to face reality at a very young age. She tried hard to take good care of her baby as a mother, though she herself was still a child. She spent her teenage years in an effort to make her child's childhood happy.Growing up, for Susan, was not exactly a fairy tale. Susan's mother was only eighteen when she had her daughter. In those years, a very young mother was not as common as it is now, so her mother was laughed at and looked down upon for that. Because of this, her father didn't have feelings for her mother any more, and put Susan into the hands of her grandmother. Susan's grandmother raised her and took care of her when she was a teenager.Her poor childhood really shaped the person that she became. Even with the task of raising her baby, she is still able to work full time as a waitress, finish high school, and even plans to go to college.

23.She ____ fifty or so when I first met her at a conference. （）选项： A:had been B:must be C:has been D:must have been