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Every day when I enter the classroom, I will take a look at the wall beside my seat. You will find nothing special about this old wall if you just look at it. But for the students in my class, it is a special wall. Take a good look at it, and you will get to know the real feelings and thoughts of us, the 9th graders.

In the middle of the wall, there is a big “VICTORY”. It was written in pencil. I guess it must have been written by someone who got a good mark in an exam.

A little higher above the formulas, there is a poem. It only has two sentences. It reads: All those sweet memories have disappeared. Like tears dropping in the heavy rain.

Oh! It must have been written at the end of the last semester in middle school. Classmates had to leave school and good friends had to part.  What a sad poem!

If you “explore” the wall more carefully, you will find many other interesting things, like a crying face, or a happy face, and other patterns(图案). There are still some patterns and letters that I can’t understand, but they all show the feeling of the students who drew them.

For years, the wall has witnessed(目睹) all the things that have happened in the classroom. I don’t know how it will be next year, two years from now, or even ten years from now. But I hope more smiling faces will be drawn on it.

41. There is ____ special on this wall.

A. something    B. anything    C. nothing     D. everything

42. What was the “VICTORY” written in?

A. Chalk    B. Pencil    C. Pen    D. Brush

43. When has the poem been written?

A. At the beginning of the last semester.    B. At the end of the year.

C. At the end of the last semester.    D. At the beginning of the last month.

44. What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

A. 部分    B. 分离    C. 和好    D. 聚集

45. What’s the title of the passage?

A. The Pictures of the Wall         B. The Feelings of the Students

C. The Patterns (图案)of the Classroom    D. The Hope of the Writer                                 (B)

No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生) and part of it is taken out. Today, however, we needn’t worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have an operation felt all its pain.

Long ago, operations had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.

Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called “laughing gas”. Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn’t seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.

Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well’s teeth. Wells felt no pain at all. As he didn’t know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.

Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.

46. It is ____ since a man being operated felt all the pain.

A. a few more years    B. not very long

C. few years    D. two thousand years

47. Long ago, when the sick man was operated on, he ____.

A. could feel nothing            B. could not want anything

C. could feel all the pain         D. could do anything

48. Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to ____.

A. be afraid of anything    B. feel pain

C. want to go to the parties    D. be ill

49. If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on, he ____.

A. felt nothing    B. felt very comfortable  C. still felt pain  D. would die

50. One who took too much of the laughing gas ____.

A. would laugh all the time               B. would die

C. would never feel again                D. would be very calm

(C)

Tibet is among the most popular places for Chinese tourists. The number of travelers to Tibet has grown by 10% every year for a few years. Since July 1,2006, when the first train ran 1956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa, more and more people have been going to Tibet.

The train stops at several famous places along the way, such as Qinghai Lake, Kunlun Mountain, and the Potala Palace. Passengers can also enjoy many activities during the journey, like Tibetan dancing and Karaoke.

On the train, passengers can have tea, eggs and noodles for breakfast, and fried chicken and green vegetables for lunch and dinner. Unlike most Chinese trains which have open – hole toilets, this one has special toilets which can collect the waste. There is also a special rubbish system (系统) in the train that keeps the environment clean. All the windows on the train can protect people from the bright sunlight. TV and electrical sockets (插座) for computers and mobile phones can be found on the train.

Because there isn’t much oxygen there, trains will have oxygen masks (氧气罩) for those who need them. It makes passengers feel more comfortable when they have enough oxygen on the famous “roof of the world”. There are also doctors on the train to make sure that all of the travelers are safe.

(    )51.Which of the following is NOT among the places of interest?

A.Qinghai Lake  B.Karaoke.

C.Kunlun Mountain. D.The Potala Palace.

(    )52.The train is unlike most Chinese trains except its            .

A.windows B.Toilets C.Sockets  D.rubbish

(    )53.The underlined word “them” in the last paragraph refers to          .

A.oxygen masks B.doctorsC.oxygen D.passengers

(    )54.We can learn from the passage that         .

A.flying to Tibet is impossible

B.train to Lhasa is too clean to take

C.train trip to Tibet is popular with travelers

D.taking train to Lhasa causes a lot of trouble

(    )55.What’s the best title of the passage?

A.Tibet – Roof of the World B.Magic Train to Magic Tibet

C.Beautiful Views in Tibet D.A Comfortable Trip to Tibet