My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

    Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

    For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

    We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

    Over dinner; we learned the stay of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately, she explained.

    “I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

    The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

21. Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

   A. Going to Work by Bus                B. The Silent Woman on the Bus

   C. Friends of the Road                  D. Different Kinds of Friendship

22. All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

   A. poor         B. cold         C. silent           D. warm-hearted

23. The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as ______.

   A. keep         B. set up        C. discover         D. accept

24. The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

   A. they were both disabled people  

B. they both brought interest to the passengers

   C. they both liked bus travel  

D. they both had some difficulty in expressing

In the past hundred years a million people have died in earthquakes, another million have been killed by hurricanes and tornadoes(龙卷风)and 9 million have lost their lives in floods. In addition to this, many more millions have died as a result of hunger and disease. We should also not forget in many of the world’s countries drought and serious water shortage are a fact of life, especially in the African Shale area bordering the Sahara Desert.

Scientists and engineers around the world have made great advances in earthquake engineering. It is, of course，impossible to move cities such as Tokyo and San Francisco that have been built on earthquake belts.

But most often it is not the earthquake that kills people. It is the falling buildings, bridges and so on that cause deaths, and such a happening can be greatly reduced by better building programs.

Finally, perhaps we need to consider the natural disaster that we are causing for ourselves. Through our mismanagement of the planet’s resources we have sped up the dying out of hundreds of sorts of plants and animals, at the same time possibly destroying our own long-term surroundings for life. Maybe this is one disaster that could be prevented if we are willing to act with a sense of responsibility.

25.              people have been killed in natural disasters in the past 100 years.

A. More than 10 million                            B. More than 11 million     

C. 10 million                                      D. 11million

26. Which of the following hasn’t killed people?

A. Earthquakes and floods.                     B. Hurricanes and tornadoes.

C. Droughts and water shortages.                D. None of the above.

27. What does the underlined words “one disaster” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Man’s mismanagement of natural resources.       B. Earthquakes.

C. The text doesn’t tell us.                        D. All of the disasters mentioned..

28. According to the text, we can say that______.

A. earthquakes can be prevented from happening

B. cities built on earthquake belts can be moved in time

C. losses and deaths caused by earthquakes can be reduced with human efforts

D. nothing can be done with earthquakes

Fluency(流利) in another language is one of the most important aims of a newcomer to another country. In addition, understanding the culture and learning to communicate comfortably with people of that culture are as important as learning the rules of the language. Language learning and culture learning go together and may take a long time.

Sometimes people feel that they understand a culture after a few weeks or months. People do learn a lot when they first begin living in another culture, but this is only the first stage of learning. It usually involves(包含) things like learning everyday activities and some basic customs.

To really understand another culture, people have to go beyond the first stage. This is challenge because it is often difficult to know what to learn. Much of what we call “culture” is hard to see.

Culture is like an iceberg. Picture in your mind a huge iceberg in the ocean. The only part of the iceberg that you see is the tip. You don’t see the rest of the iceberg because it is hidden from sight in the water. It is easy to forget that it is there. Most of the iceberg is deep within the ocean, just as much of a culture is deep within its people.

When you meet someone from another culture, certain culture differences are obvious: You hear another language or you hear your own language spoken with an accent. You see different foods, clothes and sometimes physical characteristics of people. You observe new customs or habits, such as the use of chopsticks, and, bowing or kissing on both cheeks as a greeting. These differences are interesting and important, but they are usually not too difficult to understand. They are visible so they are seen easily and quickly.

The part of culture that is like the underwater part of the iceberg consists of assumptions(设想), communication styles, values, and beliefs about what is right and wrong. The hidden part of culture affects much of a person’s way of thinking and communicating. It is the meaning behind his or her verbal (言语的) and nonverbal language. Learning to communicate well with people from another culture involves becoming aware of the hidden part of culture.

29. What’s the subject of this passage?

   A. Learning about culture.                         B. Language learning.

   C. The hidden part of the iceberg.                   D. Fluency in another language.

30. What is learning about culture?

   A. Learning the hidden part of the iceberg, which is underwater.

   B. Learning everyday activities and some basic customs.

   C. Learning the culture of an iceberg.

   D. Learning the visible as well as the hidden differences of culture.

31. What’s the writer’s opinion?

   A. Communication styles can be easily seen and learned.

   B. Language learning is more important than culture learning.

   C. Learning about culture is not easy and may take a long time.

   D. People usually learn a culture after a few weeks or months.

32. What conclusion can we draw after reading this passage?

资*源%库 ziyuanku.com   A. Values and beliefs are like the tip of the iceberg.

   B. People often become aware of the hidden part of culture.

   C. The tip of the iceberg is larger than the hidden part.

   D. The hidden part of culture has a great effect on people’s communication styles.

Booking opening for Beckett Shorts on 8 September.

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Booking opens for all other plays on 19 September.

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33. In which of the following ways of booking does one probably have to pay extra money?____.

       A. In person          B. By telephone.            C. By post          D. By fax

34. One has to wait for 2 days or longer for a reply if he/she pays____.

       A. in person            B. by telephone            C. by post           D. by fax

35. What is a useful number to call at 11 a.m. Sunday?

       A. 0541 541051         B.01789 295623          C. 017789 261174      D. 01862 387665

Building Trust in a Relationship Again

　　Trust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences. 36 . That is a risk. But you can’t be successful when there’s a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake.

　　Unfortunately, we’ve all been victims of betrayal(背叛). Whether we’ve been suffering from, lied to, misled, or cheated on, there are different levels of losing trust. Sometimes people simply can’t trust anymore.37. It’s understandable, but if you’re willing to build trust in a relationship again, we have some steps you can take to get you there.

　　 38  Having confidence in yourself will help you make better choices because you can see what the best outcome would be for your well-being.

　  39  If you’ve been betrayed, you are the victim of your circumstance. But there’s a difference between being a victim and living with a “victim mentality”. At some point in all of our lives, we’ll have our trust tested or violated(侵犯).

　　You didn’t lose “everything”. Once trust is lost, what is left? Instead of looking at the situation from this hopeless angle, look at everything you still have and be thankful for all of the good in your life. 40 Instead, it’s a healthy way to work through the experience to allow room for positive growth and forgiveness.

　　A. Learn to really trust yourself.

　　B. Stop regarding yourself as the victim.

　　C. It is putting confidence in someone.

　　D. Remember that you can expect the best in return.

　　E. They’ve been too badly hurt and they can’t bear to let it happen again.

　　F. Seeing the positive side of things doesn’t mean you’re ignoring what happened.

　　G. This knowledge carries over in their attitude toward their future relationships.