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needed me. I was busy preparing lessons, reading test papers every night. I enjoyed teaching these lovely and hardworking children, and I could see that they were making progress with my help. I have also learned a lot from them. I understand their lives better, and we are now good friends. I have worked in Long Zhou for a year now. I39。m very happy, and the experience has been very useful for me. I love the small village and the children. In fact, I would like to continue working here. 56. The writer is a volunteer teacher who es from A. Guangxi B. Xiamen C. Shanghai 57. The writer found there were only ______rooms in that school. A. two B. three C. six 58. In the passage, my heart sankmeans that the writer_________. A. felt upset B. was happy C. got angry 59. The writer found the students39。 level was_________she expected after the first test. A. just as B. higher than C. lower than 60. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? A. Both the volunteer teacher and the students are working so hard. B. The volunteer teacher doesn39。t like to work there any longer. C. The students became better and better with the help of the volunteer teacher. C Elaine is looking for a good buy on a winter coat. She sees the ad shown on the left. It says that the prices at Smiths are low. But the ad doesn39。t say anything about a sale. It does say Everyday Low Prices. Those are the store39。s regular prices. two prices for each coat. The first price shown is the sale price. It39。s written larger than the regular price. Elaine thinks that even the sale price for the ski jacket seems high. She looks back at the Smiths ad. She sees the same ski jacket advertised. Smiths regular price is lower, so Elaine decides to shop at Smiths. 61. The weather is probably _________when Elaine thinks about buying some clothes. A. warm B. cold C. hot 62. In this passage, Smithsis the name of_________. A. some people B. a kind of clothes C. a fashion store 63. The clothes on sale are_________usual in the same store. A. cheaper than B. more expensive than C. at the same price as Elaine looks for more ads and I finds the one on the right. It shows 64. Elaine decides to buy the ski jacket at the price of . A. $ 58. 60 B. $ 59. 60 C. $ 64 65. This passage tells us that_________. A. only the clothes at Smiths can help us keep warm in winter B. reading different advertisements can help us save money C. Paleys Fashion Store opens from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. D The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have bee closer now after Taiwanese leaders39。 visits and talks across the straits(海峽 ). On May 3, Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan finished his eightday visit to the mainland. Only two days later, another Taiwanese leader, James Soong, visited again. Soong is Chairman of the People First Party in Taiwan. On his nineday trip from May 5 —13, he visited Xi39。an, Nanjing, Shanghai and Changsha, as well as Beijing. Soong, 63, was born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province in 1942. He went to Taiwan with his father at the age of seven. Soong hopes his trip can build a bridge between the two sides. We are here to build a bridge of trust, understanding and cooperation between Taiwan and the mainland, he said. The two parties in Taiwan both agree with the One Chinapolicy and are in favor of the finalvunification(統(tǒng)一 )of China. Things continue to get better since Lien39。s visit. Taiwan can now sell more fruits in the mainland. The mainland plans to give a pair of giant pandas to Taiwan. More importantly, mainland people will soon be able to travel to the beautiful island. 66. Lien Chan39。s visit to the mainland lasted _________days. A. two B. eight C. nine 67. Soong went to Taiwan with his father in_________. B. 1945 C., 1949 68. The meaning of the underlined phrase in favor of is to_________. A. support B. hate C. refuse 69. The sentence... build a bridge between the two sides, in this passage means_________. A. to help the mainland and Taiwan understand and municate more each other B. to build a bridge for cars and buses to go across the straits C. to make the trip between the mainland and Taiwan much cheaper 70. We can tell from the passage that________. A. the mainland and Taiwan have e to the final unification after their visits B. the mainland will build a big and beautiful zoo for Taiwan as a gift C. the visits of Lien Chan and Soong are of great help to the future of China E David39。s got a text message from his friend Sam. Can you understand it? 7, 15 20, 15 20, 8, 5 16, 1, 18, 11 This message was in code. How many letters are there in the English alphabet? Twentysix. So can you read it now? A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U ? l 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ? David decided to use a different code in his answer to Sam. This time, he was putting A instead of B, B instead of C and so on. His message to Sam shown on the right was very short. Can you understand? A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B C D E F G H l J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Sam guessed David39。s code, and he replied。 ZESDQ RBGNNK. When David39。s little sister saw the message, she felt puzzled. She couldn39。t read it at all. But David was very happy that his sister couldn39。t read his message! Lots of people use codes to send secret messages. In a war, secrets are very important so soldiers often send each other messages in code. Nowadays, we can use puters to make and break difficult codes. Even before puters, people invented other machines to do this. Here39。s a famous machine that Germans used in the Second World War(1941~ 1945). It39。s called the Enigma Machine. The machines were very big, heavy and expensive. Every day th