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A. True or False
（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“
T
”表示，不符合的用“
F
”表示
): ( 7
分
)

Chinese
people
around
the world
celebrate
their
most
important
holiday,
Chinese
New
Year.
But
for
one
man
in
Taiwan, Yao Guan Cheng, it's all about business as he washes dirty banknotes for gifts.


According to Chinese tradition, parents give their children clean, fresh banknotes at the start of the New Year. But
there is a serious
shortage
(
短缺
) of such banknotes as the holiday period draws near, and Yao Guan Cheng noticed that.
He thought there might be a good chance to start a business to meet the needs of the market.

I
first
started
this
money-washing
business,
it
was
for
family
members
who
liked
to
collect
old
precious
banknotes.
But
later
on,
it
hit
me
that
this
service
would
bring
convenience
to
people
as
they
are
preparing
for
the
Chinese New Year. It is one of our customs to put banknotes inside little red envelopes in order to bring our children good
luck. To do that, people change old notes for new ones at the banks. But here in Taiwan, there are all kinds of rules about
how much you can change, what days you can do that and which banks you can go to. That's inconvenient. So I thought:
why not give people another choice? If they like, they can just have their old notes washed and cleaned, and they will be
as clean as new.

He doesn't just put the notes in water, he uses special chemicals and no one knows what it is. His services don't come
cheap, he charges about $$10 for washing twenty banknotes. But as there is one month to go before the New Year holiday,
he's been very busy, cleaning people's banknotes and in the process, giving a new, clean
image
(
比喻
) to the expression
'
money laundering'
(
洗钱
).

71. Yao Guan Cheng used to collect old banknotes for a living.

72. He started the business to answer the needs of the market.

73. People can change as many new banknotes as they like in Taiwan banks.

74. The coming of New Year means that more peop
le will need Yao’s service.

75. His method of washing money has been kept a secret.

76. His business is going well because he provides fast and cheap service.

77
. Yao’s success story tells us

opportunities
(
机会
) sometimes are hidden around us in our
life.

B. Choose the best answer
（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案
): ( 7
分
)
For many kids in Africa, the colorful
PlayPump
(
踏水车
) is the first playground
equipment
(
器材
)
they’ve ever seen.
When they give it a push and jump in for their first ride, smiles of wonder break out on their faces.


The
fun of
going
round and
round
in
a
circle
is
just part
of
the
wonder. This
invention
doesn’t
just
change
their
play-time. It changes their lives.
As the
merry-go-round
(
旋转木马
) starts, it
pumps
(
泵送
) clean water up from deep underground and keeps
it
in a
huge
tank
(
桶
). People are welcome to come and help themselves to the water for free.
In the countryside of Africa, few people drink clean water. They don’t have water equipment in their homes. Instead
,
they often walk a long way to carry water back.
Patricia Molope, 15, explains that before her South African village got a PlayPump, people would pay a taxi driver
to take them to a well far from their homes.
order to save water. It was too far to walk there, but now we have our own clean water in our village, and life is better.
The hard job of carrying water usually is done by women and girls. Carrying water for miles, and hours each day is
such a big job that it sometimes prevents girls from being able to go to school.
Thanks to the PlayPump, getting water is quick and easy
—
and even boys join in. The pumps have become a new
activity. Kids and adults seem to love playing with them while collecting water.
Twelve-year- old boy Khumalo says,
When I grow up, I want to be an inventor so I can invent clever things like the PlayPump that will help my country.
So far, more than 800 PlayPumps are operating in schools and neighborhoods in four African countries, providing
water for almost two million people.




78.
To get water from PlayPump, people need to _______.

A) walk long distances
B) push it first


C) run round it in circles
D) use a big tank
79.
“It” in the thi
rd paragraph refers to ______.


A) pump
B) merry-go-round
C) clean water
D) underground
80.
For Patricia Molope, getting water used to be hard because ______.


A)
she didn’t know how to use a Playpump

B) she had no money to pay a taxi driver


C) the only place to get water was far away from home

D) there was not enough water in the well
81.
Twelve-year-old Khumalo is a ______.


A) local African boy

B) world famous inventor

C) school teacher

D) native taxi driver
82.
How does PlayPump change the lives of African girls?


A) They have water to drink.
B)
They needn’t work any longer
.

C) They can play with boys.
D) They may go back to school.
83.
Which of the following is
NOT TRUE
about PlayPump?


A) People need to pay for the clean water from PlayPump.

B) Both children and parents enjoy the ride on PlayPump.

C) PlayPump makes the life of the Africans much easier.

D) About two million Africans are using the water from PlayPump.
84.
What is the main idea of the story?


A) PlayPump can bring people together.
B) PlayPump helps turn work into play.

C) Every country in the world is thirsty.
D)
PlayPump is the world’s greatest invention.

C. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage
（选择最恰当的单词或 词语完成短文
):
（
14
分）

Listening to music can be fun, but it can also cause many problems. When I was a young girl, I used to listen to pop
music
while
doing
homework.
The
only
problem
was
that
I
listened
to
it
very


85

. At
that
time,
I
lived
with
my
parents. They

hated

hearing my loud music particularly at night. It was unpleasant to them. I had to use
headphones
(
耳
机
) in order not to


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when I wanted to enjoy some music. I always listened to the music two or three levels too
high. This brought more damage to my
eardrums
(
耳膜
) than listening to music in a(n)


87


space.


After damaging my eardrums, I felt like (
感到好似
) I was always asking people to repeat themselves. And


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I
had
to
do
that
a
lot.
I
could
no
longer
clearly
hear
what
they
were
saying.
This
became
a
big
headache
to
me.
At
university I had to sit in the front of the classroom so I could hear the lecture. This meant that


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I was not on time
for class and had to sit in the back, I couldn’t not hear the teacher at all. The result was that I didn’t get good
grades.
After completing university, I began doing sales job for a living. Because I couldn’t hea
r clearly, my customers often



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that I wasn’t paying attention when they were talking. That wasn’t good for business. Finally I decided to get a
hearing aid
(
助听器
). Normally hearing aids are for


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people, but for me loud music caused me to have one about
thirty years too soon.

85.
A) quietly
B) loudly
C) seriously
D) clearly
86.
A) make noises
B) go to sleep
C) give up
D) lose hope
87.
A) big
B) empty
C) open
D) closed
88.
A) for example
B) after all
C) in that way
D) in fact
89.
A) if
B) unless
C) until
D) as
90.
A) promised
B) stopped
C) complained
D) proved
91.
A) sick
B) old
C) young
D) middle- aged