Yesterday the police were joined by more than 20 volunteers in the continuing search for the two
missing teenagers, Vicky Gray and Tom Hunter, and their guide, Gavin Jones. The police said that they
had disappeared during an adventure (冒險) tour of Cape York Peninsula.
       This was the second day of the search and the police were now very worried about the safety of the
three missing people.
       The police said that the search had covered a wide area, but the rainforest was thick and their work
was made harder by the recent rain. Later on Chief Inspector (警官) Roger Fleet said, "The travellers
had a radio with them. If they had been in trouble, they would have called us."
       The three travellers left Cooktown very early on Saturday morning in a Toyota car. They took a small dirt road that runs down to the Daintree River, a dangerous river full of crocodiles (鱷魚). Chief Inspector Roger Fleet said the tourists wouldn't have got into trouble if they had stayed on the main road.
       A photo of Vicky and Tom was found by a policeman under the "Be Careful about crocodiles" sign
near the river. Why was the photo left behind? This is just one of the unanswered questions. Other
questions are: Why was the photo left behind? Why was the Toyota parked and locked at the edge of
the rainforest? The police said that the travelers had left a map of the area behind. Why? Why had
someone drawn a cross on the point (地點(diǎn)) where the car is? Is this a sign? What does it mean? If
anyone can give information or has seen these three young people, contact the local police in Cooktown.

1. This article is probably taken from ___________.

A. a newspaper
B. a magazine
C. a storybook
D. a guidebook

2. Which word best describes the search of the three missing people?

A. Helpless
B. Hard
C. Delightful
D. Successful

3. Which of the following things wasn't found by the police?

A. A touring map.
B. A photo of the travelers.
C. The travelers' radio.
D. The travelers' car

4. All the following are unanswered questions except_____________.

A. why they left a photo behind
B. why they came to this area
C. why their Toyota was parked in the place
D. why a cross was drawn on the map

     Some people are afraid of flying. They are worried that the plane will crash or that someone may
hijack it. A person who hijacks a plane usually says he will blow up the plane if he does not get money.
Sometimes hijackers do not want money, however. They want other things. They some -times want their
friends let out of jail or to go to another country.
     The first hijacking happened on 16 June 1948 on a plane traveling from Macau to Hong Kong. Some
men with guns told the pilot they wanted, money. The pilot fought them, but the hijackers shot him. The
plane crashed into the sea, and nearly everyone in it died. Only one man lived. His name was Wong-yu
Man. When the police brought the plane out of the sea, they looked at it very carefully and found bullet
holes in the walls of the plane. They knew then that there had been a hijack.
     A policeman sat near Wong-yu Man's bed in the hospital. Before long Wong-yu started to talk in his
sleep. "Where are my men?" he said. "Are they all right? Did they get the money?" The policeman wrote
everything down. He knew Wong-yu's words meant something. He thought Wong-yu was one of the
hijackers. He was right. When Wong-yu came out of hospital, he went to jail for a long time.

l. The story is about _____.

A. a plane crash
B. how to hijack a plane
C. the first hijack
D. planes and travelling

2. When they, fly, some people are afraid _____.

A. the plane will crash or be hijacked
B. their friends will go to jail
C. someone will get a lot of money
D. the police will take them to jail

3. The first hijacking happened in Macau in _____.

A. July 1948
B. March 1938
C. March 1948
D. June 1948

4. The plane crashed because _____.

A. he police shot the plane
B. the pilot got sick
C. the hijacker blew up the plane
D. the hijacker shot the pilot

 5. Which picture shows what the police found after the crash?

            A.                   B.                 C.                    D.

    It was a lovely sunny Saturday morning in early October. Jan Hunter sat out of the window of her room as she planned what she would do today. She would like to take Buster, her sheep, to the field for a short walk. Perky, her hamster (an animal like a mouse) and Slipper, her snake, would enjoy an outing too.
"I'll help you clean your room," Mrs. Hunter said. "Then you'll be free to do what you want the rest of the
day."
    Jan started picking up her clothes. Mrs. Hunter turned to the bed to take off the sheets (床單). As she
lifted the pillow( 枕頭), Slipper moved quickly under the blanket(毯子).
    "That does it!" Mrs. Hunter cried. "Get that snake out of here! And look at this-one of your best shoes
too dirty to see the color. This is it. Jan. No more animals in the house; that's final!" Mrs. Hunter said in a
loud voice as she marched out of the room.
    Jan felt sad. She walked slowly across the street, Buster followed behind, to tell her tale to her old
friend Mr. Ward. He thought for a few minutes. Then he said that if Jan found the right cages(籠子) for
the pets, perhaps Mrs. Hunter could let the animals live out on the warm sun porch(門廊).
Jan remembered an old bird cage that would do for Perky. Buster's bed could simply be moved.
Something for Slipper, though, was a real problem.
    "Let's see what there is out in my garden," Mr. Ward suggested. They found a aquarium(魚缸)in the
corner. Mr. Ward pulled out a large piece of glass that would do for a cover. Jan and Buster rushed
home to see what Mrs. Hunter would say.
    When Mr. Ward heard Jan's loud cry of joy, he knew Jan's troubles were over.

1. The story took place on_____________.

A. a cold day in March
B. a weekend day in October
C. a Saturday in September
D. a warm day in January

2. __________ is the most important character in the story.

A. Jan
B. Mrs. Hunter
C. Mr. Ward
D. Buster

3. What happened first in the story?

A. Jan took Buster for a walk.
B. Mrs. Hunter saw the dirty shoes.
C. Mrs. Hunter saw Slipper in Jan's room.
D. Jan told her sad story to her friend Mr. Ward.

4. What was the problem in the story?

A. Mrs. Hunter was afraid of snakes.
B. Mr. Ward had an aquarium in his garden.
C. Jan didn't know what to do in such good weather.
D. Jan's mother said the pets couldn't stay in the house.

    Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known
for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing  drinks for dozens of  friends.
Just for fun, he  and some friends  decided to  tape a show named Campus  Cuisine  about his  cooking.
Lieberman was a real college student  showing his  classmates how to do things  like make  drinks out of
dining-hall fruit. That  helped the  show become  very popular among  the students. They would stop
Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with
which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
    Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He
says  Lieberman's  charisma is key. "Food TV isn't  about food  anymore," says Flay. " "It' s about your
personality(個性) and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show."
    But Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show,
Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company  (航空公司)
was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its
flights. Lieberman got the job.

1. We can learn from the text that Lieberman's family _______.

A. have relatives in Europe
B. love cooking at home
C. often hold parties
D. own a restaurant

2. The Food Network got to know Lieberman _______.

A. at one of his parties
B. from his teachers
C. through his taped show
D. on a television program

3. What does the word "charisma" underlined in the text refer to?

A. A natural ability to attract others.
B. A way to show one's achievement.
C. Lieberman's after-class interest.
D. Lieberman's fine cooking skill.

4. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?

A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
B. He was famous for his shows on the Food TV.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

5. What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?

A. He is clever but lonely.
B. He is friendly and active.
C. He enjoys traveling around.
D. He often changes his menus.

       Ever since I was a child, my mouth has caused me trouble. I'm not a bad person; I have a hard time
learning when to keep my mouth closed.
        My mom has told me again and again, "Robert, your constant bad words are hurting me. If you
continue to be this rude, you will get into big trouble."
       It's been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something I didn't want
to hear. I used to feel it was my duty to stand up for myself.
        One day in English class I began working on my homework until I heard a classmate talking behind
me. It was Nathaniel, talking to himself as usual.
        I said ever so nicely, "Nathaniel, would you be quiet?"
        Nathaniel continued talking to himself. I quickly shouted "Nathaniel, shut up!"
        For the next five minutes, we threw hurtful words back and forth at each other.
        "At least I don't have an ugly lazy eye like you!" I shouted.
        I knew this would upset him deep inside. It would hurt his feelings and shut him up.
        What I said filled him with anger. He tried to reach over my seat and grab me as he shouted, "That's
it! That's it!"
        Surprised at his reaction, I sat back in my seat. Never had I seen Nathaniel act like this before.
       Later on, we were taken to the principal's office.
       There, Mr. Black, the principal, told us to discuss the matter. It wasn't until then that I finally found
that when I hurt someone physically, the wounds eventually heal. But when I hurt them with my words,
sometimes the pain (痛苦) never goes away.
       At the end of the discussion, I said sorry to Nathaniel.
       When I headed back to my room, I spent some time praying. I began to think about how often what
I said hurt others. But I believe that as I keep praying and asking God to help me, he'll tell me when to
keep my mouth closed.

1. What's the writer's name?

A. Nathaniel.
B. Robert.
C. Black.
D. Green.

2. One day in English class, Nathaniel ____when the other classmates worked on their homework.

A. read the text
B. listened to the others
C. talked to himself
D. kept silent

3. What's the Chinese meaning of the underlined word heal?

A. 愈合
B. 痛苦
C. 和好
D. 傷害

4. In the text the writer tried to tell us that .

A. when you hurt someone, the pain never goes away
B. we should try to help each other at school
C. it is one's duty to stand up for himself
D. words cause more pain than wounds

       Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found
out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain
degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
       Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself,
each extra dollar makes less and less difference.
       Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and
happiness is complex(復(fù)雜的). In the past half-century, the average income (平均收入) has sharply
increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic
needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
       "Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better," say some experts, which
helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.
       In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires (欲望), not just for
money, but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less
happy than those who felt a smaller gap (差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about
five times better than income alone. "The gap measures just blow away the measures of only income."
says Michalos.
       Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad "Given all the
problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?" asks Professor Laura Carstensen. In one
survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an
emotion questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they're more
realistic about their time running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy
and let go of those that don't.
       "People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever," she says.
"A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20."

1. Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs____ .

A. make them feel much better
B. provide chances to make friends
C. improve their social position
D. satisfy their professional interests

2. Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if _____.

A. the gap between reality and desire is bigger
B. they have a stronger desire for friendship
C. the hope for good health is much greater
D. their income is far below their expectation

3. We can infer from the passage that older people _____.

A. would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people
B. are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others
C. express their positive opinions just as some young people do
D. find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic

4. According to the passage, the feeling of happiness _____.

A. increases gradually with age
B. is controlled partly by desires
C. has little to do with wealth
D. is decided mostly by genes