_______.

A. they have the habit of coming out in darkness B. their enemies can easily find them and eat them C. it's easy for them to destroy plants in darkness D. birds take their rests when night comes

24. A certain fish living in seas has lived through millions of year because _______. A. it is the most powerful in the sea B no other fishes can swim as fast as it can

C. it can send out a kind of liquid which makes its enemies unable to find it D. the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies

B

Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone’s life? If you , don’t care about sex(性别）or age! Come and join us, then you’ll make it!

Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant ( No Pay with Free Meals) Place: Manchester Hours: Part Time

We are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don’ t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others! Role:

You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued. Skills an Experience Required:

You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you’ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you.

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25. The text is meant to . A. leave a note

B. show a document(文件） C. carry an advertisement D. send an invitation

26. What does the underlined part mean in paragraph one? A. You’ll earn a good salary from this job B. You’ll arrive home just in time from this job C. You’ll succeed in getting this job

D. You’ll make others’ lives more meaningful with this job 27. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text? A. A girl can’t get the position( 职位） B. You can get money from the position C. You can get the position in 5 days D. Free meals are available( 可得到的）

C

The seven Harry Potter novels are to be sold as e-books for the first time in October. Author J.K Rowling announced(宣布）the series would also be available as audio books through a new website, Pottermore.

The website will also feature(使。。。有特色）new material which Rowling says she has been collecting for years. “ This is such a great way to give something back to the fans who made Harry Potter such a huge success”, the author said.

The Harry Potter novels have sold more than 450 million copies through Bloomsbury in Britain, and Scholastic in the United States. However, the e-books , which will be available in several languages, will be published through Rowling’s Pottermore Publishing, rather than her print publishers which do not own the digital rights(数字版权）。

Pottermore went live on 31 July, Harry Potter’s birthday. Rowling told the BBC that the new material was being released(发布）online, rather than in a new book, because

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she did not have “a new story”. “Most of this writing is material I generated(创作）while I was writing the books earlier,” she said. “ It’ s a background, and lots of details. Some of it is new stuff in reply to things fans have asked me over the years.”

The site, which Rowling said she had been working on for two years, promises to immerse(使沉浸于）users in the boy wizard’s world, offering opportunities for computer gaming, social networking(网络）to all users from October.

Rowling told reporters at the London Pottermore launch she had an intention of writing an eighth Harry Potter book. 28. What would be the best title for this text?

A. Harry Potter Series to Be Sold as E-books B. J.K Rowling to Create Even Brighter Future C. Pottermore to Offer New Material to Users D. The Online World to Take on a new look

29. Which of the following is NOT included in J.K Rowling’s new material?

A. The answers to some questions from her fans B. The background of Harry Potter novels C. The details about Harry Potter novels D. The plots of her future Harry Potter novels

30.The users can do all the following on the new website Pottermore EXCEPT . A. make friends online B. do the shopping online C. play computer games D. watch Harry Potter films 31.What can be inferred from the text?

A. More Harry Potter novels were sold in the US than in Britain B. Most of J.K.Rowling’s new materials were written years before C. J.K.Rowling will write a new Harry Potter novel in the future D. J.K. Rowling’s e-books will be published by her print publishers

D

I am a good mother of three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

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I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓言）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today. So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who you love. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲）, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learnt to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned, and by telling them this: read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion(激情）as it ought to be lived.

32. It can be inferred from the passage that . A. the author spent all her time caring for her children B. the author didn’t try her best to work well C. the author is a success in personal life D. the author likes traveling very much 33. How did the author form her view of life?

A. Through social experience B. Through an unfortunate experience C. By learning her friends D. From her children and husband 34. What’s the author’s attitude toward work?

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