A. At 12:00  
B. At 12:30    
C. At  13:00  

A. In the bank.    
B. In the street.  
C. In the shop.   station.  

A. About three miles.  
B. About four miles.  
C. About six miles. 

     It was a cold winter afternoon. Robert stopped for a moment as he crossed the bridge and looked
down at the river below. There were hardly any   1    on the river. Near the bridge, however, almost
direct below,   2    was a small canoe (独木舟), with a boy in it. The boy was wearing  3    and shivering (颤抖) with cold, Robert noticed.     
     Just then he heard a cry, “Help! Help!” The cry   4    from the river. Robert looked down. The boy
was   5    the water and his canoe was floating away. “Help! Help!” he called again.    
      Robert was a good   6    . Taking off his clothes, he   7    into the river.
The   8    water made him tremble（颤抖） all over,    9    in a few seconds he reached the boy. 
“Don’t be afraid,” he said and started to swim towards the river bank,  10   the boy with him. But at
that   11   he noticed a large motor boat under the bridge. There were several people on the boat,
all   12   in his direction. Robert   13   to swim towards the boat.   
     “Give me a hand,” he shouted   14   he got near the boat. He   15   up into a row of faces. “It’s
funny,” he thought. “They look so   16   .” Silently they helped the boy into the
boat and   17   him in a blanket (毯子). But they did not move to   18   Robert.  
      “Aren’t you going to pull me   19   , too?”  
    “You!” said one of the men. Robert noticed that he was standing next to a large   20   . “You! Why,
we were making a film and you spoiled (破坏) a whole afternoon’s work! You can stay in the water!”

   I really love my job because I enjoy working with small children and like the challenges and awards
from the job. I also think my work is important. There was a time when I thought I would never have that
sort of career（职业）.    
     I wasn’t an excellent student because I didn’t do much schoolwork. In my final term I started thinking what I might do and found I didn‘t have much to offer. I just accepted that I wasn’t the type to have a
career.    
     I then found myself a job,  looking after two little girls. It wasn’t too bad at first. But the problems
began when I agreed to live in, so that I would be there if my boss had to go out for business in the
evening. We agreed that if I had to work extra hours one week，she’d give me time off the next. But
unfortunately, it didn’t often work out. I was getting extremely tired and fed up, because I had too many
late nights and early mornings with the children.    
     One Sunday，I was in the park with the children，and met Megan who used to go to school with
me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification
（资格证书）if I wanted to work with children. I didn‘t think I would be accepted because I didn’t
take many exams in school. She persuaded me to phone the local college and they were really helpful.
My experience counted for a lot and I got on a part-time course. I had to leave my job with the family，
and got work helping out at a kindergarten.    
     Now I’ve got a full-time job there. I shall always be thankful to Megan. I wish I had known earlier
that you could have a career，even if you aren’t top of  the class at school.

     All over the world people enjoy sports; sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live
longer.    
     Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the
games. Often they get very excited when "their" player or team wins.    
     Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for(参加) them. Football, for example,
has spread(展开)around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with
many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! And think of
people in cold countries. Think how many love to skate or ski (滑雪) in Japan, Norway or Canada.      
     Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for
example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred
years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest
in the family of sports.      
     People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together
they often become good friends. Sports help to train(培养,训练) a person’s character(性格,品格).
One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(胜不骄,败不馁).

A. Because they are healthy.    
B. Because they are happy.    
C. Because they want to live longer.    
D. All the above.

A. Water-skiing.        
B. Basketball.        
C. Volleyball.      
D. Long jump.  

A. Locks.
B. Marking.
C. Registration.
D. Basic Security.

     Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next
week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't
know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife
said. "All
right," Dick answered.
     He flew to New York on January 3<http://gk.>st and found a nice hotel in the center
of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his
hotel in it.
     In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and
said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."
     He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't
remember the name and address of his hotel.
     "Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of
the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another
telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."
Choose the right answer

     There is an English saying:“1._________.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously.
Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body.
2. ________
     Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films
while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter
has similar effects to physical exercise. 3.__________. If laughter exercises the body, it must be
beneficial（有益的）.
     Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.
In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs.
The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny
program.4._________.
      5.__________. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making
them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

     My sister saw a lovely cup when we are shopping the other day. She liked it at once. Then she
bent down and picked up to look at a price on it. As she did this, lots of tea splashed on his T-shirt!
I had to try hardly not to laugh at her shocked face! My sister wanted get out of the shop as fast as
she could when a shop assistant came over to us. It was turned out to be her own cup, that she’d
left on the shelf by mistake. The assistant was clearly as embarrassing as my sister, for I just thought
it was funny!

请你仔细阅读所给英文信，然后给Worried写一封回信。要求包含以下内容：
1．鼓励他振作，不要灰心。
2．记一些惯用词组和句型结构，将它们组织在一起并用其造句。
3．多读英语，告诉他通过大量阅读才能正确使用语言。
4．多背诵一些好的短文。
要求： 不要逐字逐条翻译，词数一百左右。
Dear Helpful,
    I’m a Senior Three student and I’m in trouble. I used to like English, but now I have some difficulty
with English, especially with English writing. Though I know English is a very important subject, I think
now it is too difficult for me. You know I have got poor results in English many times because my writing
is poor. I wonder why so many students like English and can get good results in English. I do want to
be one of the best students and go to a famous university after graduation. But my English is not good
enough. What should I do?
                                                                                                           Worried
_______________________________________________________________________________