At an auction (拍卖会) last Thursday, Kevin Lipton paid $2,585,000 for the Birch Cent, a made in 1792 that is its engraver (刻版师), Robert Birch. It’s the most money paid for a one-cent piece. And yes, he said, the purchase made . “It’s like our very first penny,” Lipton, 55, told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. “It’s such a(n) coin. It’s so important, so rare.”
The coin is 10 similar coins known to exist that were produced after the founding of the U.S. Mint (美国造币厂), said Jim Halperin, co-chairman of Heritage Auctions. It features a profile face Miss Liberty, framed by a motto that was later abandoned, “Liberty Parent of Science & Industry.”
Lipton, who owns a coin wholesaling business (批发业务) in Beverly Hills, had been eyeing the Birch Cent he saw it in 1981 at a New York auction house. That year, Johns Hopkins University consigned (拍卖、寄售) the penny for auction, and it was by New York City developer Donald G. Patrick $200,000. Patrick consigned the coin to Texas-based Heritage Auctions. At the Orlando auction where Lipton the Birch Cent, he bought a quarter dollar from 1792 for $2,232,500. , he paid about $4.8 million for 26 cents.
Lipton has coins since he was 12 years old, and his full-time coin business _ when he was just 17. He that he was nervous about spending so much money, but now he’s his million-dollar coins will mature. “They are a great store value, and will only be worth more ,” Lipton said. ‘‘They are Mona Lisas of our coinage.’’
A．dollar B．note C．coin D．quarter
A．designed for B．sold by C．based on D．named after
A．ever B．even C．still D．yet
A．money B．sense C．changes D．adjustments
A．special B．magical C．artificial D．beneficial
A．between B．within C．among D．of
A．experimentally B．definitely C．finally D．perfectly
A．predicting B．indicating C．representing D．suggesting
A．until B．when C．after D．since
A．sold B．purchased C．borrowed D．lent
A．by B．on C．for D．in
A．set up B．picked up C．made up D．put up
A．also B．thus C．already D．just
A．Altogether B．Anyway C．However D．Besides
A．made B．issued C．displayed D．collected
A．started B．decreased C．failed D．progressed
A．concluded B．declared C．admitted D．swore
A．cautious B．confused C．committed D．confident
A．in the past B．in the future C．for the moment D．at the time
A．merely B．actually C．temporarily D．probably
原创（二）
Who has deprived the children's happiness of learning???
Children are born with a natural desire of learning. They are curios and concerned about 36 around them. They are 37 to learn anything that amazes them. They have so many 38 that they keep on asking. They can bore the 39 all day long with many 40 questions which they will never feel bored with. Why? This is because learning is their 41 , perhaps an instinct of human beings. They just can't help. But 42 , they feel bored with learning, especially when learning becomes a boring 43 for them, especially after school has become a 44 of their life, especially when they have to 45 teachers who tell them again and again to 46 to recite and memorize things they don't want to learn, and especially 47 they realize school is not what they once 48 to be but something that, according to their parents, they must rely on in order to 49 a good fame or a good job or a good future. That is to say, learning has become a 50 , which they are forced or 51 to face. So it is the teachers and parents who have thrown the heavy 52 on the children. And meanwhile, the competitive society is also to blame. The children have been 53 of their pleasure and happiness that they could have enjoyed from the natural learning.
Therefore, my 54 to the students’ learning is that they 55 enjoy learning, enjoy the pleasure that they could feel from learning itself. Find back the long lost desire and curiosity of learning in their childhood.
36．A．nothing B．anything C．everything D．something
37．A．curious B．proud C．nervous D．eager
38．A．questions B．reactions C．problems D．troubles
39．A．students B．adults C．parents D．teachers
40．A．funny B．boring C．bored D．practical
41．A．ability B．excuse C．characteristic D．nature
42．A．gradually B．eventually C．however D．therefore
43．A．duty B．exercise C．task D．remark
44．A．pleasure B．part C．occasion D．success
45．A．face B．follow C．escape D．imitate
46．A．repeat B．copy C．report D．reply
47．A．before B．since C．after D．when
48．A．forbidden B．attracted C．intended D．expected
49．A．require B．achieve C．earn D．indicate
50．A．promise B．service C．must D．choice
51．A．pleased B．recommended C．obliged D．experienced
52．A．burden B．confidence C．difficulty D．challenge
53．A．informed B．deprived C．accused D．approved
54．A．encouragement B．persuation C．suggestion D．decision
55．A．must B．should C．might D．could
原创（一）
It is not so much what happens to each of us that determines our quality of life, but rather our reaction to what happens. Though we may have no 36 in unexpected events that happen to us, we most certainly have choice in 37 we interpret what happens, and in whatwe choose to do about it. These choices make all the 38 in how we experience our world and very much determine our 39 of life.
Neither does what we own 40 a major role in quality of life. One person with all the money and possessions in the world may have a 41 life, while another in the lowest income classes may 42 love their life. It is what we do with what we own that 43 our level of satisfaction and joy in life. It's not what you 44 or what happens to you in life that 45 , but rather what you do with it.
Every 46 something is happening in our lives. And every moment we 47 or a judgment about what happens. By choosing to become more 48 of how we react to what happens, we can 49 towards what we really want in our lives. 50 following habitual, reactive patterns which 51 more of the same, we can recognize and 52 our old habits to move powerfully in the 53 of creating the life we really want. Yet to do this, we must first find the 54 to look at some of the disempowering, often unconscious 55 which get in the way and don't serve to increase our quality of life. But by continually reminding ourselves of our intention to be creators, we can transform our life.
36．A．need B．courage C．choice D．necessity
37．A．what B．whether C．that D．how
38．A．difference B．troubles C．decisions D．measures
39．A．type B．quality C．amount D．level
40．A．take B．play C．make D．get
41．A．miserable B．accessible C．acceptable D．adaptable
42．A．practically B．privately C．absolutely D．adequately
43．A．creates B．investigates C．affects D．handles
44．A．lack B．need C．reserve D．possess
45．A．means B．exists C．works D．matters
46．A．time B．period C．date D．moment
47．A．make a mistake B．make a discovery
C．make a decision D．make a fortune
48．A．conscious B．sensitive C．reasonable D．active
49．A．alter B．shift C．differ D．distinguish
50．A．Other than B．Rather than C．As well as D．According to
51．A．lead to B．lie in C．call for D．appeal to/ equal to
52．A．transplant B．transform C．transport D． transmit
53．A．edge B．way C．direction D．center
54．A．hope B．interest C．chance D．courage
55．A．patterns B．frames C．landscape D．examples
II 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并将答案填涂在答题卡上。
Azure Warrenfeltz, a 4-year-old girl, is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can 21 bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese.
In today's globalized world, Azure is one of many young American children whose parents insist her 22 include foreign languages.
"It's such a 23 environment now, you never know what you might need," says Azure's mother, Julie Warrenfeltz, who started schooling her daughter in foreign languages when she was 6 weeks old. "She couldn't 24 a violin, she couldn't stand upright, but I wanted her to do 25 ."
Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for 26 , but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in school. They are more 27 to diversity, says François Thibaut, who runs The Language Workshop for Children, which has nine schools around the East Coast.
Language study for children is based on immersion (沉浸), he says. Kids sing songs and play games to help develop language comprehension skills. When children start learning languages at birth, they have the 28 to learn many languages at once without getting 29 — because, as the brain develops, so too does the ability to separate one 30 from another.
21. A. learn B. hear C. understand D. teach
22. A. school B. field C. teacher D. education
23. A. global B. big C. small D. dirty
24. A. play B. hold C. learn D. make
25. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
26. A. parents B. teachers C. adults D. experts
27. A. blind B. open C. deaf D. strange
28. A. capacity B. desire C. possibility D. dream
29. A. bored B. interested C. involved D. confused
30. A. world B. parent C. language D. sound
第三节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My 21 took me by train or by car to a hotel by the 22 . All day, I seem to remember, I 23 on the sands with strange 24 children. We made houses and gardens, and 25 the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we 26 over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.
In those days the 27 seemed to shine always brightly 28 the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country,_ 29 ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were 30 in one’s pockets or good places where one could 31 ice creams. Each day seemed a lifetime.
Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good 32 is much the same as it was. I 33 like the sun and warm sand and the sound of 34 beating the rocks. I no longer wish to 35 any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. 36 I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.
Sometimes I 37 what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am 38 . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about 39 who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves 40 on too many ices…
21. A. teacher B. parents C. nurse D. younger sister
22. A. sea B. lake C. mountain D. river
23. A. played B. slept C. sat D. stood
24. A. moving B. exciting C. anxious D. nervous
25. A. made B. brought C. watched D. heard
26. A. rolled B. jumped C. turned D. climbed
27. A. light B. sun C. moon D. lamp
28. A. and B. yet C. but D. or
29. A. exploring B. examining C. repairing D. measuring
30. A. sweets B. sand C. ice-creams D. money
31. A. make B. sell C. buy D. offer
32. A. house B. holiday C. garden D. tide
33. A. hardly B. almost C. still D. perhaps
34. A. waves B. tides C. hands D. feet
35. A. destroy B. fix C. use D. build
36. A. But B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides
37. A. wonder B. feel C. understand D. believe
38. A. strong B. weak C. young D. old
39. A. children B. boys C. girls D. grown-ups
40. A. happy B. tired C. sad D. Sick
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55 各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出最佳选项。
Once there was a group of men---- a young hot-blooded man and a big number of old folks, doing a timber(木料
) job in a jungle.
This young man was very -36-. He always continued to work through his break time and -37- that those old folks were wasting time, having to -38- several times a day to drink and chat. As time went by, this young man noticed that -39- he worked through break time and hardly took a -40-,those old folks were chopping the same -41- of trees as he did and sometimes did more. It was as if they worked through the break time as he did. So he -42- to work harder the next day. Unfortunately the -43- were even worse.
One day, one of the old folks -44- him for a drink during their break time. That young man -45- and said that he had no -46- time! Then the old man smiled and said, “It is just a waste of effort to -47- chopping trees without re-sharpening your axe(斧子). Sooner or later you will -48- or be so tired as you have spent too much -49-.”
Suddenly the young man -50- that actually during break times while those old folks were having a chat, they were -51- re-sharpening their axes at the same time! And that’s how they could -52-faster than him, yet spending less time!
What we -53- is efficiency by making use of our skill and ability -54-. Only then can we have more time to do other things. Otherwise we will always keep saying…..I have no -55-!
36. A. weak B. clever C. hard-working D. good-looking
37. A. admired B. complained C. reminded D. predicted
38. A. plan B. appear C. work D. break
39. A. even though B. only if C. because D. unless
40. A. photo B. rest C. step D. bath
41. A. weight B. height C. amount D. price
42. A.failed B. pretended C. agreed D. decided
43. A. marks B. results C. effects D. conditions
44. A. invited B. blamed C. thanked D. forgave
45. A. begged B. argued C. nodded D. refused
46. A. wrong B. valuable C. extra D. exact
47. A. mind B. avoid C. practice D. keep
48. A. speed up B. give up C. watch out D. turn out
49. A. energy B. money C. life D. skill
50. A. warned B. expected C. realized D. announced
51. A. also B. hardly C. seldom D. never
52. A. talk B. chop C. walk D. climb
53. A. abandon B. introduce C. need D. teach
54. A. quickly B. curiously C. seriously D. intelligently
55. A. time B. tool C. job D. patience
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