Having lived in the house for so long, we found our kitchen looked old. We decided it was time to   1    the kitchen, and my husband and I were discussing    2     colors. The children, sitting nearby, suddenly all spoke together: “Not the measuring stick.”

“No,” I    3    them. “Not the measuring stick.”

The measuring stick isn’t a (an)   4    stick but the kitchen side of the door between our kitchen and dining room. Along the edge we’ve   5     each child’s growth by making a mark showing his or her   6    on every birthday. Over the years so many colored pens, pencils and markers have been used, that now, this white door is somewhat like an abstract painting.

Names and dates show different    7   , and I can tell by the script(手迹) who measured whom. An eight-year-old measured her three-year-old sister, a grandchild measured her grandmother, my husband measured me. At the parties, when this door   8    back and forth frequently, friends stop to   9    the names and dates. When we ask if they would like to be always remembered, they usually smile   10    and go back right up into place,    11    to be measured.

Many of those listed on the door are still    12   ; some have stopped. Some remain with us only in   13   . When my mother came to see my eldest daughter graduate from university, we measured her too. It was her last visit to our home.

We haven’t   14    the new kitchen color plan yet, but one thing is certain: whatever color we choose, the back of the kitchen door will always remain   15   , with lots of names and dates in various colors.

1．A．restore           B．rebuild        C．sell            D．repaint

2．A．comfortable       B．possible        C．available       D．changeable
3．A．promised         B．repeated       C．followed        D．responded
4．A．false            B. wonderful       C．actual           D．obvious
5．A．kept             B. witnessed        C．recorded       D．accompanied
6．A．age             B. weight         C．name         D．height

7．A．information       B. handwriting      C．style           D．characteristic 

8.  A．adjusts          B. shuts          C．opens          D．swings
9．A．copy            B. read           C．appreciate      D．remove
10．A．proudly         B. automatically     C．shyly          D．calmly
11．A．ready           B. voluntary       C. able            D．unwilling
12．A．growing        B．contributing      C．studying       D．working
13．A．sight          B．design          C．amazement     D．memory
14. A．concerned about   B. approved of       C. decided on       D. relied on  

15．A．fresh            B．old             C．white           D．original

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My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed   16   birds for him and said that he would leave the key   17 

his front door in my mailbox.

  18   (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,    19    was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door    20    the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of    21    Vernon would say when he came back.

I was just going to give up    22    I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb    23    and open the window.

I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone    24  

(shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbours. “What are you doing up there?” said the policeman.    25   (feel) like a complete fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.”

Even when you’re extremely busy, you aren’t using your time with 100% efficiency. There are gaps in everyone’s schedule where they aren’t doing anything important. Even if your schedule has no gaps, there is probably lots of time where you aren’t working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.

Why aren’t you completely efficient? It’s because time isn’t the limiting factor. If it were the limiting factor, people could work non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions(消遣). Instead, people, even those who are highly productive, need to take breaks, occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.

The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay attention. Energy levels limit your productivity because when you’re tired, you can have ample time and still not get everything done. Your attention ability is also limited, because even if there are a million things that need to be done, you can only focus on one or two at a time.

You might not be able to insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices(牺牲). But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything. The reason it’s hard to “find time” isn’t a lack of time. It’s because you don’t have enough energy left to focus on something else that needs to fit into your day.

I first suspected time wasn’t the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago. I was insanely busy, but at that time I still exercised regularly. I had daily to-do lists with over twenty items, and I still found time to exercise. However, after a few weeks off, due to illness, I stopped exercising. I was not busy by any standards, in fact, my schedule was incredibly light. Despite this free time, I found it hard to find time to exercise. It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone. How can I explain this odd experience? I believe you have known it.

26. If someone can’t work with 100% efficiency, the most important limiting factor is ________.

A．a schedule without gaps                    B．breaks and distractions

C．the limited time                        D．the limited energy

27. According to paragraph 4, everyone, including the extremely busy people, can ___________.

A．work without any rest                 B．focus on many things at a time

C．find some more time in a day            D．do some exercise regularly

28. After a few weeks off, what was the change of the writer’s life?

A．He had a longer daily to-do lists with over twenty items.

B．He stopped doing exercise because of the lack of energy.

C．He found it hard to find time to exercise because he was busier.

D．He pushed most of the things later and later in his schedule.

29. The writer gives the example of himself in the last paragraph in order to ___________.

A．prove what the real limiting factor is        

B．show us how busily he needs to work

C．explain how important a healthy body is   

D．tell us what an odd experience he has

30. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Are You Really Lack of Time?            B．How Can You Work Efficiently?

C．What Makes Your Energy Limited?       D．When Should You Do Exercise?

Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman waited beside the door with her hand outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never failed to return my smile, my grasp, and my greeting.

    On the last day of our visit, I found myself alone on a busy corner across the street from our hotel. Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. As I hesitated on the sidewalk, I felt a hand on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me. She nodded her head toward the street, indicating that she would take me across. Together, we moved slowly into the chaos.

    Then we moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then left, still smiling and waving back to me.

Traveling in poorer nations, I have witnessed a variety of ways to deal with beggars. The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry, hoping that other ragged pursuers won’t immediately appear on the scene.

For many reasons, giving money is not the best response to an outstretched hand. Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect. Everyone needs recognition, to be seen as worthy of being known, to feel appreciated and loved. And I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing.

31. The woman beggars helped the author go across the busy street because __________.

A．the author gave her material assistance     

B．the author treated her kindly and friendly

C．the author would help her as a reward      

D．the author was a foreigner

32. From the story, what position of the beggars in the author’s mind might be?

A．equal                   B．superior          C．lower               D．valuable

33. In common cases, people will do the following things to the beggars EXCEPT for ________.

A．pretending to see nothing                B．handing out some money

C．refusing them angrily                    D．greeting them normally

34. According to the author, the most important things beggars really need are _________.

A．mercy and pity 　B．money and food  C．smile and greeting  D．attention and respect

35. The purpose of the passage is to _________.

A．show how poor the beggars are in Vietnam

B．offer some advice on dealing with begging

C．express what we should offer the beggars

D．describe an experience with a beggar

As I grew older, Dad was to build all sorts of things for me as I explored a variety of interests: magic tricks, a toy circus, neighborhood shows and science projects.

    From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.

    In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet(木偶) show that we wanted to perform for our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon---who was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult with me saying something like, “ It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it, even if you still have a puppet on your hand.” Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.

   Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don’t remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out, spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the machine and then figure out what wasn’t happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever and then put everything back together again.

36. If you are the writer, you are supposed to write about ________ahead of the first paragraph.

      A. father’s achievement in mechanics    

      B. father’s love and skills in mechanics

      C. father’s experience at repairing cars   

      D. father’s inventions in mechanics

37. Who helped the writer to make the puppet?

      A．The writer himself.     B．His classmate.        C．His teacher.    D．His parents.

38. Before the writer went to college, he always turned to his father for _____________.

      A．designing a machine                             B．building his design or idea

      C．making a puppet show                          D．building a show stage

39. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

      A．The writer’s car is always breaking down.  

      B．Father works in a car repairing shop.

      C．Repairing in a shop can save much money.  

      D．Father was good at mending his car.

40. The purpose of the writer’s writing the passage is ______________.

      A．to tell how his father made a puppet for him

      B．in memory of his parents

      C．to describe to the readers his memories about his father

      D．to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions