Never in all my life have I heard such a shameless lie.

A . mass B . mess C . guess D . bu

A . I am happy B . It's a pleasure C . I am sorry D . I am welcome

A . gain B . grain C . train D . rai

A．Right B．Wrong C．Not mentioned

A.did I feel B.I felt C.had I felt D.I had left

One area of change is【24】. Some changes have been improvements. Some changes, on the other hand, have been【25】. When I started school, most people didn't have a television; TV was just beginning to get【26】. My father decided to go all out and buy a 16-inch black and white Motorola【27】. I still remember watching the Lone Ranger save people from the【28】guys on that awesome electronic machine. That was exciting! Now,【29】have larger pictures in full color. The pictures are clearer and the sound is much more【30】. The new high definition sets are made to rival【31】screens. The variety and quantity of programming has【32】greatly. There are hundreds of channels "and more shows than one person could ever watch. There are many fine entertainment and educational【33】. There's also a lot of garbage, stuff that most【34】don't want their kids exposed to. Overall, we have more choices, and that is good. I wonder what【35】will be like when today's kids are my age. (41) A．young B．old C．sad D．happy

A.heard B.heard about C.heard of D.listened to

Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we transfer them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally ill patients--even when those patients are their parents. This deprives(剥夺)the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience. Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed approximately 500 terminally ill patients in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome. It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients' communications in order to truly understand their needs, fears, and fantasies(幻想). Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their tremendous need to be informed, to be kept up-to-date on their medical condition, and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death. Five hundred critically ill patients were investigated with the main purpose of ______. A．learning how to best help them and their families B．observing how they reacted to the crisis of death C．helping them and their families overcome the fear of death D．finding out their attitude towards the approach of death

A、Pocahontas B、Grandma Willow C、John Smith D、Pocahontas' dad

A．why B．where C．which D．what

Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood. I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed". What is the passage mainly about？ A．How life has improved. B．How life has become worse. C．A comparison of life now and that in the past. D．Memory of life in the past.

A. health B. money C. time D. environment

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It wasn’t always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working till late in the office every evening and often bring work home at the week end. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look hack, I can’t imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all, no time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complained that she never saw me and I had no time for, family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together again and to start a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed a horrible dream. (23) A．He was a gardener. B．He worked in an advertising agency. C．He worked on a farm. D．He ran a village shop.

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