What was Nauru like before the Europeans came、

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• 1What might be the author’s purpose in writing the text、

  A.To seek help for Nauru’s problems.

  B.To give a warning to other countries

  C.To show the importance of money

  D.To tell a heartbreaking story of a war.

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• 2   Whenever we hear about “the homeless,”, most of us think of the Developing world. But the  36  is that homelessness is everywhere. For example, how many of us would expect to see people living on the streets of a  37  country like Germany、    Kurt Muller and his wife Rita have spent eleven years making  38  for the homeless of Berlin, Germany’s capital. They first  39  one long hot summer when most Germans were  40  on holiday. Kurt and his wife stayed at home, made sandwiches,  41  a table in the street and gave food to the homeless.    The Mullers soon realized that food and clothing weren’t  42    . “What these people also need is warmth and  43  ,” says Rit

  A.The Mullers didn’t 44 to give their phone number to the street people and told them to phone anytime. Rita 45 there was somebody at home to answer the phone and their home was always 46 to anyone who couldn’t face another night on the street. The couple were soon 47 all their time and money, so Kurt visited food and clothing companies to 48 donations. Today, over thirty companies 49 donate food and other goods to the cause and volunteers help to 50 them to the homeless. The public also give clothes and money and a shoe producer 51 new shoes. Kurt and Rita receive no 52 for their hard work. “ We feel like parents,” says Rita, “and parents shouldn’t 53 money for helping their children. The love we get on the streets is our salary.” Though Rita admits she often gets 54 . She says she will continue with her work because she likes the feeling of having made a 55 in the world.A.result

  B.truth

  C.reason

  D.idea

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• 3After completing and signing it, please return the form to us in the envelope ________.

  A.providing

  B.provided

  C.having provided

  D.provide

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• 4The manager was concerned to hear that two of his trusted workers ______.

  A.will leave

  B.are leaving

  C.have left

  D.were leaving

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• 5Be _______ — you can’t expect me to finish all this work in so little time.

  A.reasonable

  B.confident

  C.creative

  D.grateful

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• 6The ecological disaster in Nauru resulted from _______.

  A.soil pollution

  B.phosphate overmining

  C.farming activity

  D.whale hunting

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• 7Which of the following was a cause of Nauru’s financial problem、

  A.Its leaders misused the money

  B.It spent too much repairing the island

  C.Its phosphate mining cost much money

  D.It lost millions of dollars in the civil war.

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• 8What can we learn about Nauru from the last paragraph、

  A.The ecological damage is difficult to repair.

  B.The leaders will take the experts’ words seriously.

  C.The island was abandoned by the Nauruans

  D.The phosphate mines were destroyed

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• 9According to the text, the first Oxford English Dictionary _________.

  A.came out before minor died

  B.was edited by an American volunteer

  C.included the English words invented by Murray

  D.was intended to be the most ambitious English dictionary

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• 10How did Dr. Minor contributed to the dictionary、

  A.He helped Murray to find hundreds of volunteers.

  B.He sent newspapers, magazines and books to Murray.

  C.He provided a great number of words and quotations

  D.he went to England to work with Murray.

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