| 语音知识。 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。 | |||||
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| 情景对话 。 根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两个为多余选项。 |
| M: Hello, please sit down. W: 1 Well, let me get a start. John and I have been married for sixteen years. We haven't been very happy for quite some time. We argue all the time. M: 2 W: Oh, anything. For example, when our children started school, I got a job. Well, anyway, by the time I pick up the children from school, I only get home about half an hour before John. M: Yes? W: Well, when he gets home, he expects me to run around and make dinner. He never does anything in the house. 3 M: I see. Is your husband here? W: 4 He doesn't want to come here, but-Well, I have persuaded him to do it. M: OK. 5 W: No, of course not. A. Thanks. B. After all, I'm not his servant. C. If you don't mind. I'd like to talk with him for a moment. D. What do you argue about? E. Are you worried about it? F. Yes, he's waiting outside. G. I'm not quite sure. |
| The Internet, as _____ means of communication, has been popular since _____ early 1990s. |
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| So absorbed _____ in his experiment that Newton boiled his watch when he wanted to boil an egg to eat. |
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| Tom did well in the last English exam, and much to my delight, Mary did ______ than Tom. |
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| There is a saying, "Life is 10% _____ happens to us and 90% _____ we respond to it." |
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| — Can you accompany your little brother to the post office now? — _______, if he is ready. |
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| The doctor recommended that you ____ swim after eating a large meal. |
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| In my opinion, hard work is as important as, ______ an efficient way in study. |
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| — Can you lend me a dictionary? — Sorry, I've got ____ at hand myself. You can ask for others' help. |
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| _____ lacking in money, his parents, making their living by working abroad, managed to send him to a key middle school. |
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| Excuse me, Miss Wang, a man named Robert from the Bank of Construction ____ all morning. Could you speak to him now? |
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| — How many students, do you think, will be present at the meeting? — I expect _____ 200 students. |
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| — Mr. Smith, can I take on the job? — I'm afraid not. It is a sort of work ______ rich experience and great patience. |
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| — Did you have any trouble finding your way in London? — Yes, I tried to find my way to the museum but ____. |
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| I work as a postal letter carrier in Charlotte. One day several years ago, I drove up to a 1 . Christy, the young divorcee (离了婚的人)who lived there, was waiting by the roadside. She said that she had a 2 to tell me. About six months 3 it seemed that I had 4 a letter to her which had her street 5 on it but was addressed to another house with the 6 number on a different street in her neighborhood. She decided to drop off the letter to the correct house. It turned out that the letter had been 7 for Johnson, who happened to be 8 . They talked for a little while and later on he 9 . Then they started dating (约会) and had been going 10 together ever since. I felt sorry for delivering the letter wrong, but I was 11 that I had brought these nice people together. A few months later a(n) 12 sign went up in Christy`s yard. and then the wedding 13 were sent out. Soon the house was sold,the wedding happened, 14 Christy, with her kids, moved into Johnson`s house. A few months later, I saw a For Sale sign in 15 yard. I feared the 16 might be trouble, so I made up a(n) 17 to go to their door and check on them. Christy opened the door,smiled broadly, and 18 to her huge stomach "We are having twins!" she said, "This house won`t be big enough, so we have to 19 ." I suddenly realized that my one 20 letter was now giving two little yet-to-be-born people a shot at life. Great! | ||||
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| Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became good friends because of their shared love for children. Two years after the couple got married, Ellen saw a huge change in the life of one of her students, a 9-year-old girl. Three years earlier both of the little girl's parents had died and there was no one to take care of her. She was taken away to live in a government office. But finally she was taken in and adopted by a family and became their daughter. Ellen said that she noticed the difference in the child's life after she was placed in a permanent home and thought that maybe she and her husband could help a child in a similar way. They decided to become temporary parents and to take a child into their home just on the weekends when the real parents could not take care of him or her. The pair planned to have their own children in a few years, but decided that this would be a way to give to the community in the meantime. The couple quickly grew to love one of the children they looked after. When he became legally available, Billy became the first child they took in permanently. Six months after adopting Billy, Ellen was told by her doctor that she was unable to have children naturally. Ellen says she knew then that adoption was the way she was meant to have a family. Since adopting Billy, now 17, Ellen and Bill have adopted five more children-Rose, 16; Albert, 11; Joshua, 5 and in June 2003, they added biological brother and sister Tyler and Rylee to the County family. The County family has been recognized for their work on adoption, and has received many awards for their efforts. Last June, the family was even interviewed on the television show,"Adoption Stories". Ellen says she would like to encourage other families to adopt children. She adds that the best part of being a mother of six is: "Giving Josh a bath, putting a band-aid on a cut knee or just the everyday Mom things, that makes motherhood such an honor and a privilege." |
| 1. What is the passage mainly about? |
| A. How a couple first met at college. B. Where you can adopt a child. C. The benefits of adoption to the community. D. How adoption created a happy family. |
| 2. Why did Ellen and Bill first decide to adopt a child? |
| A. Because they had always loved students very much. B. Because they saw the benefits of adoption for a child. C. Because they were not able to have children of their own. D. Because they want to receive awards for their community work. |
| 3. Which of the children are related to each other by blood? |
| A. Rylee and Tyler. B. Billy and Tyler. C. Albert and Joshua. D. Rose and Albert. |
| 4. The last paragraph _____. |
| A. tells the reader how they can adopt a child B. describes the things that make Ellen happy C. says what Ellen does every day D. lists the problems Ellen has with the kids |
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| After being laid off from her job, Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paid jobs, relocated to a new city and even declared bankruptcy. Then in December, she finally moved back into her parents' home at age 52. "I'm back living in the bedroom that I grew up in," she said. Taking shelter with parents isn't uncommon for young people, especially when the job market is poor. But now the declining economy is forcing some children to do so later in life-even at middle age. Financial planners report receiving many calls from parents seeking advice about taking in their grown children after divorces and lay-offs. Kim Erickson, a financial planner in California, said she has never seen older children, even those at 50, depending so much on their parents as in the last six months."These are 40-and-50-year-old children of my clients that they're helping out. We have a hard time saying no as a culture to our children, and they keep asking for more," she said. Bauer's parents won't take rent money. She's trying to save several hundred dollars a month for a house while working as a meeting coordinator. Bauer would prefer to live on her own, but without her parents' help, she would "probably be renting again," she said."Buying groceries for another person isn't stretching my budget too much," said her mother, Shirley Smith, aged 80. Parents usually feel guilty if they don't offer help. But a large number of well-meaning parents must delay retirement or scale back their dreams because they have to help their children, Erickson said. And the sliding economy might threaten their jobs. "I almost have to act like a financial therapist," she said to Shirley. "Here is the line I'm drawing for you. That's fine. You can do up to this point, but at this point, now you're starting to erode ( 损害 ) your own wealth." |
| 1. From the passage, we can learn that _____. |
| A. middle-aged people even have fewer job opportunities than young people B. few of American young people live with their parents C. the rate of divorce in America is obviously on the increase D. many parents are at a loss on dealing with grown children |
| 2. How did Ann Bauer's parents act after learning about her situation? |
| A. They at first refused but finally allowed her to move back. B. They didn't hesitate to invite her back home. C. They allowed her back on condition that she bought groceries. D. They preferred her to love on her own because of their tight budget. |
| 3. What attitude does Erickson have towards aged parents helping their grown children? |
| A. She thinks it unnecessary. B. She is in favor of it. C. She thinks parents should be more careful with their savings. D. Parents shouldn't feel guilty when failing to help their children. |
| 4. What is the main idea of the passage? |
| A. American culture has an effect on the relationship between parents and children. B. Children's dependence on their parents is increasing. C. Sliding economy forces grown-ups to move to their parents' home. D. Supporting grown children may put their parents' financial freedom at risk. |
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| Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims. The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people's hair. "You're what you eat and drink, and that's recorded in your hair," said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah. While U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move. Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah. Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months. Cerling's team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional difference. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops. They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad region roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems. "It's not good for pinpointing (精确定位)," Cerling said. "It's good for eliminating many possibilities." Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake. The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair. When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researches. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months. She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming. "It's still a substantial area," Park said,"But it narrows its way down for me." |
| 1. What is the scientists' new discovery? |
| A. One's hair growth has to do with the amount of water and drink. B. A person's hair may show where they have lived. C. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects. D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person. |
| 2. What is said about the rainfall in America's West? |
| A. There is much more rainfall in California than in Utah. B. The water it delivers becomes lighter when it moves inland. C. Its chemical composition is less stable than in other areas. D. It gathers more light isotopes as it moves eastward. |
| 3. What did Cerling's team produce in their research? |
| A. A map showing the regional difference of tap water. B. A collection of hair samples from various barber shops. C. A method to measure the amount of water in human hair. D. A chart illustrating the movement of the rain system. |
| 4. What is the practical value of Cerling's research? |
| A. It helps analyze the quantity of water in different regions. B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed. C. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work. D. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation. |
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Freda Bright says," Only in opera do people die of love." It's true. You really can't love somebody to |
| 1. The sentence in the first paragraph "Only in opera do people die of love." means ______. |
| A. no love in the world is believable B. love is one thing, and life is another C. love in operas is truly touching D. love can survive forever, though people die at different ages |
| 2. That the husband prepared her a second letter about her raise suggests that ______. |
| A. he loves her because he believes that she is sure to receive a raise B. he has a great way to promote his wife's love towards him C. he has a false love for people even if the person is his wife D. he loves his family members truly, whether they are in good conditions or not |
| 3. From the text, we might say the author ______. |
| A. refuses any spiritual emotions as embraced and kissed B. criticizes the attitude of suspicion of the love C. doesn't believe there is true love in the world D. thinks the true love does not expect repayment |
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While everybody enjoys fresh cut flowers around his house, few people know how to keep them for as long as possible. This may be done by keeping in mind a few simple facts. The key to keeping fresh cut flower for a week or more without preservatives ( which contain biocides (杀虫剂) that kill bacterial and fungus) is to keep the water fresh and the stems free of air pockets so they can continue to draw up water. 2. ( ) An important thing to remember about cut flowers is that they are sensitive to temperature. For example, studies have shown that cut carnations retain their freshness eight times longer when kept at 12℃ than when kept at 26℃. Keeping freshly harvested flowered at the right temperatures is probably the most important aspect of flower care. 3. ( ) The process by which flowers consume oxygen and produce carbon dioxide, called respiration (呼吸), supplies the energy the flower needs to give the flower its shape and color. The making of seeds also depends on this energy. While all living things respire, flowers have a high level of respiration. A result of all this respiration is heat, and for flowers the level of heat relative to the mass of the flower is very high. Respiration also brings about the eventual death of the flower. Thus the greater the level of respiration, the sooner the flower dies. 4. ( ) How, then, to control the speed at which flowers die? By controlling respiration. How is respiration controlled? By controlling temperature, we know that respiration produces heat, but the reverse (反面) is also true. Thus by keeping low temperatures, respiration is reduced and the cut flower will age more slowly. 5. ( ) Another vital factor in keeping cut flowers is the quality of the water in which they are placed. Flowers find it difficult to "drink" water that is dirty or otherwise polluted. Even when water looks and smells clean, it almost certainly contains harmful substances that can endanger the flowers. To rid the water of these unwanted substances, chlorine bleach (含氯漂白剂) can be used in small quantities. It is recommended that 15 drops of chlorine bleach be added to each liter of water. The water and solution (溶液) should also be replaced each day. |
| 单词拼写。 根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。 |
| 1. Mr. Zhang, one of my _______ (同事), is strict with his students. 2. The fifth day of a week is _______ (周四). 3. This rule can't be _______ (应用) to every case. 4. Don't be frightened by the TV camera; just speak _______ (自然地). 5. The two film stars haven't _______ (宣布) their engagement yet. 6. Oil is the raw _______ (材料) for plastic. 7. George cut his finger and it was _______. (流血). 8. It is _______ (典型) of him to think of others first. 9. My sister likes Co-co's songs in _______ (特别). 10. The wind didn't _______ (加强) overnight. |
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| Mobile phones are being more wide used. They're light in weight and easy to carry, offer fast and convenient service for communication. The users use them for making phone call, sending short messages and Internet-surfing. In recently years, mobile phones have become popular to middle school students. Quite a few use it to keep in touch with their families and friends, what, of course, was of great convenience. However, I don't think it's good to do so. In spite of the advantages mentioned above, student users often waste a lot of time chat on the phone in their spare time. Some even cheat in exams. In addition, mobile phone bills spend their parents lots of money. ______________________________________________________________________________________ |
| 书面表达。 假如你叫李华，为了培养同学们的英语学习兴趣，提高英语水平，你和学校的几位英语爱好者在 互联网上建了一个叫做“easyenglish.com”的网站。请用英语在校报上写一篇文章, 向全校同学介绍这 个网站。 要点如下： 1、目的：培养学习兴趣，使英语学习变得更轻松。 2、内容包括：（1）丰富的英语材料：英语习题、外国文化、英语小故事等； （2）网络英语聊天； （3）展示英语习作，交流学习体会。 3、内容包括以上要点，可适当添加细节。词数不少于100。 |
| Dear fellow students, _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ |