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AI used to think education was the most important thing in my life . Recently my attitude has began to change, although I still hold that it is essential for everyone in the world today. As a top junior student in my school, I was asked to make a speech o n how to learn English well. Standing in front of my people, I was trembling. I didn’t remember any word that I had prepared. I ran out of the conference room without finishing my speech ,leaving everyone puzzled. I cried that night in my room ,feeling that I was a loser. Studying takes up so much of my time that I feel unable to really develop myself. I have received many awards in school, but they don’t show anything about me. I am just storing knowledge, yet fail to communicate with others. When I leave school I feel I will be of no use to society.I realize that everyone has his own way of living. I want to change my lifestyle. Of course I will keep studying. Yet I plan to look for a part-time job, which might turn out to be a good change to get to know society.56、From the passage we can learn that the author______.A. comes to know how important it is to make some moneyB. realizes that it is more important to develop oneself than just to learn knowledgeC. does not think education is the most important thing in his life any moreD. thinks that getting along well with others is more important than education57. The author believes the awards he has received ____.A. show that he is a top studentB. show how much time he has spent in learningC. mea n that he knows how to learnD. don’t necessarily show he is excellent in many ways58.The author feels fearful that he will be of no use to society mainly because______.A. he is unable to develop himself B .studying takes too much of his timeC. he does not know how to communicate with othersD. he feels that he is a failure BDCBThe clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call “books”.I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer. In fact I dared not.The clock struck twelve. “Oh, dear!” I cried. “Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.The clock struck one. I was quite desperate now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired t o go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.51. The underlined word “wretched” in Paragraph 3 probably means ____________.A. happyB. disappointedC. unhappyD. hopeful52. Reviewing his lessons that night didn’t help him because ____________.A. it was too late at nightB. he was very tiredC. his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them openD. he hadn’t studied hard before the examination53. What do you suppose probably happened to the author the next day?A. He went to a church to pray again.B. He passed the exam all by luck.C. He failed in the exam.D. He was punished by his teacher.54. The best title for the passage would be ____________.A. The Night Before the ExaminationB. Working Far into the NightC. A Slow StudentD. Going Over My Lessons答案：51-54 CDCACIn the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who trie d to look as rich as his neighbours.The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Jonses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.55. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ____________.A. want to be as rich as their neighboursB. want others to know or to think that they are richC. don’t want others to know they are richD. want to be happy56. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ____________.A. live outside New York CityB. live in New York cityC. live in apartmentsD. have many neighbours57. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his seri es of short stories because “Jones” is ____________.A. an important nameB. a popular name in the United StatesC. his neighbour’s nameD. not a good name58. According to the writer, it is ____________ to keep up with the Joneses.A. correctB. interestingC. impossibleD. good 答案：55-58 BABC1.If you were a housewife, which program would probably interest you most?A. Let’s Talk!B. Wall Street Today.C. Cooking with Cathy.D. Farm Report.2. If you’d like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to .A. Channel 5 at 6:00B. Channel 8 at 7:00C. Channel 3 at 7:30D. Channel 3 at 8:003. Which is most probably the News Channel?A.3.B.5.C. 8.D. 9.Passage 2、1. C 细节判断题。