41. The underlined word “condition” in the first paragraph probably means ________.

A. grade     B. disease      C.  status   D. health

42. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.

A. The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip

B. The 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel

C. Philip was really different in school

D. Philip was older and more sensitive

43. The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ________.

A. play around on that beautiful spring day

B. go out and discover themselves

C. try to pull it apart in the middle

D. put some symbol of “new life” into it

44. After Philip explained his new life, ________.

A. The class fell silent                 B. The class thought he was clever

C. He began to study in the class         D. He felt dying.

45. We learn from the passage that ________.

A. The teacher used to have classes outdoors

B. Philip was healthy as a whole

C. Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end

D. The Philip’s new life wish was empty

B

At 4：53 p.m. on January 12, United Nations aid worker Jens Kristensen was at his desk reading documents on the third floor of the Christopher Hotel, which served as UN headquarters in Port­au­Prince, when he felt a tremor. Four seconds later, the earthquake hit.

“In a split second, I considered whether to run for the door or hide under my desk，” says Kristensen, 48. “The door was closed, and I thought that maybe it was too far and I would be caught under falling debris, so I hid under the table.” A bookshelf topped onto his desk, protecting him from being crushed by rubble and trapping him in a tiny pocket. “I was confined as if in a small coffin，” he says. It was so dark, and it didn’t matter if his eyes were open or closed. He used the light from his mobile phone to see around him. He found, among other items, a jar of instant coffee. “I had no food or water, only the coffee to suck on if I needed it.”

At ab out 6：30 a.m. on January 17, an oil leak silenced the building’s generators, and Kristensen was able to hear muffled voices above where he was buried. “I thought, I was too tired to bang and shout. But then I realized, I had to take every chance. This could be one.” So he called out. Six hours later, Kristensen saw his rescuers’ faces. “It was so amazing. I felt I had received a second birthday，” he recalls.

Dehydration and pains but with only a bruise and a scratch, Kristensen took three days to recover. The UN lost more than 90 people in Haiti. But Kristensen says that the outpouring of love helps heal the pain: “The genuine happiness of peo ple toward me here has been wonderful. You feel part of a larger family.”

46.When the earthquake struck, Jens Kristensen decided to ________.

A. read documents in the office  B. stay under the desk

C. run out of the room quickly   D. catch the falling debris

47.What protected Jens Kristensen from being injured by falling bricks?

A. The bookshelf.             B. The desk.

C. The door.          D. The pocket.

48.When Jens Kristensen heard the voices, he came to know that ________.

A. he couldn’t have the chance to survive the earthquake

B. his parents arrived here to save him at once

C. he was able to ask for help from rescuers

D. he was so tired and he couldn’t say anything at all

49.According to the last paragraph we can know that Jens Kristensen felt ________.

A. fortunate    B. grateful     C. popular      D. courageous

50.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. The rescuer’s day

B. An aid worker’s life

C. A dangerous adventure

D. Kristensen’s experience in an earthquake

C

Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six. He had fought for years against cancer. Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.

Tim Bajarin is president of Creative Strategies, a high-tech research and consulting company.

TIM BAJARIN: "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life. Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."

Steve Jobs was a college dropout. He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant. They supported his early interest in electronics.

He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer -- now just called Apple -- in nineteen seventy-six. They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five. That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute with the chief executive.

Mr. Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer. He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT. He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.

Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader" and a "marketing genius."

David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.

DAVID CARROLL: "The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning. He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time."

Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health. He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement. Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com. It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.