I started living here two months ago.I have lived here ____________________ two months ago

23 Chestnut Ave. ,

Wellington, Shropshire.

Wednesday, 5th October

Dear Joe,

I'm afraid this won't be a very cheerful letter because at the moment I'm feeling absolutely fed up. It's the usual story; this morning I had another quarrel with my mother. Well, to tell you the truth, it wasn't really a quarrel, because I just shut up and didn't say a word, which always angers her. Anyway, what happened was that she came into my bedroom and started shouting at me because I had thrown my dress over the chair instead of hanging it up properly. Well, she is right of course, but on the other hand I'm so busy at the moment with exams and one thing and another that I really haven't got time to do everything right. I know I'm not the world's tidiest person, but it seems that at the moment I cannot do anything right as far as she is concerned. Do you know what I mean？ Anyway, when I didn't reply, she really lost her temper and started going on about all sorts of things, bringing up every single thing that I've done wrong in the last few years. To listen to her, you'd think I was the laziest, the most selfish and the most thoughtless person in the world, and I don't know what else. I know she doesn't really mean it, and in her own funny way she is trying to do her best for me.

Anyway, as if all that wasn't enough, my father lost his temper with me at lunchtime, just because I asked him a perfectly reasonable question. Honestly, Joe, it's at times like this that I can hardly wait to get away from home, find a place of my own, and start living my own life in my own way.

Sorry to sound so gloomy. I'll write to you again when I'm in a better mood. Please write to me when you have time. I always look forward to your letters.

Love,

Anna

P.S. As always, give my love to your pretty daughter, Claire. Tell her I'm coming to see her next summer.

According to the passage, ______ annoys Anna's mother most.

A．her quarrel with her mother this morning

B．her throwing her dress all over the chair

C．her keeping silence facing her mother's scolding

D．her asking her father an unreasonable question

听力原文： I come from a big family.. three brothers land a sister.., and we all work in the family business. We make cakes. We used to have a small shop that sold bread and other things that we made, but now we just make cakes and bread and deliver them to shops here. My father started the business, but he died six years ago and as I said, my mother is taking care of it now. Even before he died, when she was looking after the children and running the house, she helped him a lot with the business. So when Dad fell ill, it wasn't difficult for her to take over from him. My older brother, George, was already helping a lot then, and I used to help out at weekends too, even when I was a child

What do they do for a living now？

A．They have a shop that sells bread and cakes.

B．They buy cakes and bread and sell them.

C．They make cakes and bread and send them to shops.

23 Chestnut Ave. ,

Wellington, Shropshire.

Wednesday, 5th October

Dear Joe,

I'm afraid this won't be a very cheerful letter because at the moment I'm feeling absolutely fed up. It's the usual story; this morning I had another quarrel with my mother. Well, to tell you the truth, it wasn't really a quarrel, because I just shut up and didn't say a word, which always angers her. Anyway, what happened was that she came into my bedroom and started shouting at me because I had thrown my dress over the chair instead of hanging it up properly. Well, she is right of course, but on the other hand I'm so busy at the moment with exams and one thing and another that I really haven't got time to do everything right. I know I'm not the world's tidiest person, but it seems that at the moment I cannot do anything right as far as she is concerned. Do you know what I mean？ Anyway, when I didn't reply, she really lost her temper and started going on about all sorts of things, bringing up every single thing that I've done wrong in the last few years. To listen to her, you'd think I was the laziest, the most selfish and the most thoughtless person in the world, and I don't know what else. I know she doesn't really mean it, and in her own funny way she is trying to do her best for me.

Anyway, as if all that wasn't enough, my father lost his temper with me at lunchtime, just because I asked him a perfectly reasonable question. Honestly, Joe, it's at times like this that I can hardly wait to get away from home, find a place of my own, and start living my own life in my own way.

Sorry to sound so gloomy. I'll write to you again when I'm in a better mood. Please write to me when you have time. I always look forward to your letters.

Love,

Anna

P.S. As always, give my love to your pretty daughter, Claire. Tell her I'm coming to see her next summer.

According to the passage, ________annoys Anna's mother most.

A．her quarrel with her mother this morning

B．her throwing her dress all over the chair

C．her keeping silence facing her mother's scolding

D．her asking her father an unreasonable question

a long time, and he's living in a new house now. I'm going to drive there and see him this afternoon."

He took his brother's address, got into his car and started out. He drove for a long time, but he didn't find the house __22__ he stopped and asked somebody to help him.

"Go straight __23__ this road for two miles(英里)," the man said, "then turn left, and then take the second road on the right."

Mr. Parker went straight along the road and turned left after two miles, but then he got lost again. He drove for __24__ mile, and at last he saw a road on his right and stopped. A woman was coming __25__ him, so he said to her, "Excuse me, is this the second road on the right？"

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One day Mr. Parker said to himself, "I haven't seen my brother David __21__ a long time, and he's living in a new house now. I'm going to drive there and see him this afternoon."

He took his brother's address, got into his car and started out. He drove for a long time, but he didn't find the house __22__ he stopped and asked somebody to help him.

"Go straight __23__ this road for two miles(英里)," the man said, "then turn left, and then take the second road on the right."

Mr. Parker went straight along the road and turned left after two miles, but then he got lost again. He drove for __24__ mile, and at last he saw a road on his right and stopped. A woman was coming __25__ him, so he said to her, "Excuse me, is this the second road on the right？"

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Part B

Directions: You will hear four dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.

听力原文： I am living in a small village in the country. My wife and I run a village shop. We have a very peaceful life, some boring I say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village. They have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too--gardening, fishing, walking in the country side. I love the outdoor life. It wasn't always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working so late in the office every evening. I often bring work home at the weekends. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look back, 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 complaint 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 and started 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 like a horrible dream.

What did the speaker do for a living？

A．He ran a village shop.

B．He worked on a farm.

C．He worked in an advertising agency.

D．He was a gardener.

Fantasy Flight: Chiaki Mukai, Japan's First Female Astronaut

Raised by a working mother in Gunma Prefecture, a place known for dry winds and tough women, Chiaki Mukai decided she wanted to become a doctor while she was still in elementary school. At 32, she was a cardiovascular(心血管的)surgeon and chief resident at the Keio Hospital in Tokyo. Then she saw the newspaper ad that changed her life.

The beginning of a dream

The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was looking for astronauts. What really shocked Chiaki, as she prefers to be known, was that there were no gender restrictions.

She suffered for three days. Weightlessness has much to offer scientific research, she thought. If I don't try, I'll regret it for the rest of my life.

"I had no idea what to expect," Chiaki said, giving one of her trademark smiles. "But I started two training programs the day I sent in my application. First, I started learning English. Then I began working out with weights."

Her English study program was entirely self-constructed. She made English labels for everything in the house. "I wanted it to seem like I was living in an English-speaking country," she explained. She answered the phone in English. She read English-language books. In August 1985, NASDA chose three payload specialists for the 1992 Spacelab-J launch — Mamoru Mohri, Takao Doi, and Chiaki Mukai. Chiaki's journey to the stars had begun.

The journey to space

"You can never give up," Chiaki says. "The life of Marie Curie taught me that. I read time and again how she struggled with her home, her children, and her scientific dream. And she achieved her goals — even though it cost her life.'

"My mother is the same kind of woman. She didn't want to depend on someone else for her livelihood, so she opened a haberdashery(男子服饰用品店)in our hometown. She still runs it."

Chiaki's mother didn't blink an eye when her daughter told her of being chosen as an astronaut. "You never know what life's going to deal you," she said to Chiaki. "So you must do what you really want to."

Once she started her training for space, Chief's roster(名单)of heroes grew longer. "Yuri Gagarin was the pioneer," she said. "I have immense respect for him. And Nell Armstrong — it was really great, what he did. That must have been a 'fantastic voyage'. But then all the people I worked with at NASA and NASDA are heroes in their own way. So how do I choose？

Chiaki gestured at the bustle(喧嚣)of Tokyo outside the window. "From here, we can't see very much. But from 300 miles up, you realize how small the earth is. But you know what I first learned in Orlando, Florida — at Disneyworld." Which brings Chiaki to another of her heroes: Walt Disney. Like Chiaki, he was a dreamer. And he shared his dreams of fantastic worlds with others. She is fascinated by the way his movies, gentle and natural, teach us about humanity.

"Disney, and science fiction writers like Arthur C. Clarke, realized the Earth is just a small planet without having to go into space. Their accomplishment is much greater in a way than ours. We saw with our eyes. They saw with their minds' eyes."

The first Japanese astronaut to fly an American space shuttle was Mamoru Mohri, who went as payload specialist on the Spacelab-J, a flight funded largely by Japan. Chiaki and Takao Doi backed him up.

After Mohri's flight touched down, Chiaki journeyed back to Japan to begin work in the microgravity lab at Tsukuba. But word soon came that she had been chosen as payload specialist for the International Microgravity Laboratory-2 (IML-2), so she returned to take up the training where she'd paused.

"Mohri was chosen to fly the Japanese-funded space shuttle, so there was never any doubt that he'd go. But the IML-2 was an international

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B．N

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A、is coughing

B、coughing

C、to be coughing

D、to cough

The furniture in her bedroom is quite different from __ in the living room.

A. that

B. it

C. one

D. which

A young woman in a small German town was going to give a piano concert. Her posters said that she was a pupil of Franz Liszt,the great Hungarian pianist.This was not true.

One day the woman learned that Liszt himself was in town. Now people would find out and she would never be able to give a concert again. What should she do？ Finally she went to see the famous man herself. She told him everything. Her parents were dead and she was alone. She had to make a living. She decided to give piano lessons to rich children. But who would send their children to an unknown young woman？ So she told people Franz Liszt was her teacher.

“I believe you,’’Liszt said. “You’ve done wrong，but I can see you are truly sorry about it. That’ s enough. Now let me hear you play. ’’

The young woman was shy at first. But then she saw Liszt smiling. It made her feel better. Now she wasn’ t afraid any more. She started playing. She put her heart into it and she played wonderfully. Liszt was quite pleased. When she finished, she turned to look at Liszt. There was a smile on his face. She could see he was pleased. Then Liszt gave her some advice. After he finished,

“Now you really are my pupil. Go ahead with your concert. And you can add a note to the posters. Say that your teacher himself will be there. He will play the last piece.” What was the young woman？

A.She was a college student.

B.She was an unknown pianist.

C.She was an orphan with a lot of money.

D.She was a student of Franz Liszt at first.

What was Franz Liszt？

A.He was a great Hungarian pianist

B.He was a musician of U.S.A

C.He was the young woman’s teacher

D.He was a money-maker

Why did the young woman tell a lie that she was a pupil of Franz Liszt？A.Because she really was a pupil of the great Hungarian pianist

B.Because she wanted to give lessons to the rich children so that she could make a living

C.Because she wanted to cheat people

D.Because she wanted to show off herself

According to the passage,we know Franz Liszt____.A.was a proud and serious man

B.disliked the young woman

C.was angry with the young woman and criticized her seriously

D.was friendly to her and showed mercy to her hard life and helped her with the concert