Kyle

　　1.What’s the main purpose of the memorandum?

　　A.To explain the arrangement for an event.

　　B.To encourage people to travel by car.

　　C.To ask for help arranging a party.

　　D.To thank people for attending the party.

　　2.Why does Kyle Berwick write to Annette Derringer? Because he wants to _____.

　　A.ask the price of movie ticketsB.explain why he cannot come to the party

　　C.request directions to a hotelD.ask if he may bring guests to the party

　　3.Which of Kyle’s points is NOT mentioned in the memo?

　　A.Payment for extra guests.B.Storage of personal items.

　　C.Parking restrictions??? .D.Timing for the evening.

　　4.What can we infer from the passage?

　　A.The manager of the Green Vale doesn’t hope they go there by car.

　　B.Annette takes charge of the arrangement of year-end party.

　　C.They can take as many belongings as they can with them when going to the Green Vale.

　　D.Kyle Berwick won’t bring the guests to go to the party if he has to pay the tickets.

　　We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.

　　“You could win prizes,” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”

　　We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured upour designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. I’m going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich.

　　Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewer’s attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students’ desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of the sort they seemed especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then always—always—rewarding the same old winners.

　　I believe I drew a sailboat, but I can’t say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen，and then I turned it in.

　　Minutes passed.

　　No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again.

　　I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, What poster? when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone in the class applauded for me.

　　1.What was the teacher’s requirement for the poster?

　　A.It must appear in time.

　　B.It must be done in class.

　　C.It must be done on a construction sheet.

　　D.It must include the words on the blackboard.

　　2.The underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 most probably means ________.

　　A.formed an idea for

　　B.made an outline for

　　C.made some space for

　　D.chose some colors for

　　3.After the teacher’s words, all the students in the class________.

　　A.looked very serious

　　B.thought they would be rich

　　C.began to think about their designs

　　D.began to play games

　　4.After seeing the good students’ designs, some students________.

　　A.loved their own designs more

　　B.thought they had a fair chance

　　C.put their own designs in a corner

　　D.thought they would not win the prize

　　5.We can infer from the passage that the author________.

　　A.enjoyed grown up tricks very much

　　B.loved poster competitions very much

　　C.felt surprised to win the competition

　　D.became wise and rich after the competition

　　第二部分：阅读理解(共15小题：

　　阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　The ability to do several things at once has become one of the great measures of self-worth for 21-century Americans. It is called multitasking, and it takes many forms. As one example, why go out to lunch when you can eat at your desk, talk to a client on the phone, scroll through your e-mail, and scan a memo simultaneously? And why simply work out on treadmill (单调的工作) when you could be watching television and talking on a portable phone at the same time? What a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment --- three activities for the time commitment of one! Ah, such efficiency. No wonder those who turn “to do” lists into a time-management art form tend to boast (自夸): “Look, me, how many things I can accomplish at once. If I’m this busy, I must be important.”

　　Yet last week the New York Assembly struck a blow against multitasking, at least behind the wheel, when it approved a bill banning drivers in the state from using handheld cellular phones. Too dangerous, the assembly said, citing research showing that drivers are four times more likely to have a collision when they are talking on a cellphone.

　　No one can argue against using time effectively. But accompanying the supposed gains are losses. Consider the woman out for an early-morning walk in a suburban neighborhood. She strides briskly, head down, cellphone clamped to her ear, chattering (喋喋不休) away, oblivious of the birds and flowers and glorious sunshine. Did the walk have any value?

　　More than a decade ago, long before multi-tasking became a word in everyday use, a retired professor of theology(神学) in Indiana with whom I corresponded (通信) made a case for what might be called uni-tasking — the old-fashioned practice of doing one thing at a time.

　　Offering the simplest example, he said, “When you wash the dishes, wash the dishes.” Good advice, I’ve found, whatever the task.

　　Perhaps, too, the ban on phoning-on-the-road will even spark a move away from other forms of dual activity. Who can tell? It could mark the first step in a welcome reconsideration of what really constitutes productivity and accomplishment.

　　1.The author thinks that multitasking has become one of the great measures of self-worth because ________.