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| My friends and I had just finished lunch at a hotel when it started to pour 1 . When it became lighter, I decided to get my car, which was 2 at my office three streets away. My friends argued that I shouldn't go, mainly because I was seven months pregnant then. I assured them that I'd be very 3 . I walked out of the 4 and started making my way to the car. At the traffic junction, a van stopped and the passenger got off with an umbrella. Before I knew what was happening, he walked right beside me and told me he'd escort(护送) me to my 5 . I was very embarrassed and declined(辞谢), but he was very 6 . During our 7 , he kept telling me to walk slower, as the ground was 8 . When we got to the car park, I 9 him and we parted ways. I did not get his 10 and may not even recognise him now. Did he 11 stop for me? I'll never know. So how did I pay it forward? I was at home when I 12 two Indian construction workers walking in the heavy rain. They were probably on their way to the construction 13 near my estate, which was a long walk in. I went out and passed them an umbrella. I told them they should take the umbrella and 14 it. They were very grateful and like me, probably wondered why a 15 was offering such kindness. | ||||
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| 语法填空。 Ma Wendi is used to curious glances 1 she walks six dogs at the same time. They are not all hers. 2 25-year-old veterinary graduate is a full-time dog walker. "I have to take care of twelve dogs at most," said Ma. She charges 500 yuan a month per dog, and most customers leave their dogs at her house for a week. The 3 (busy) time is around Spring Festival, because many people go back to their hometowns for family reunions 4 go traveling. " 5 (compare) with people who have to be in their offices during the day, I don't have to get up early 6 (squeeze) into the subway carriages in rush hour, and I still make a decent salary, " she said. "But it's a tiring job. I have to work whenever there are dogs at home, and no time to enjoy 7 . Sometimes I want to go out for a meal or shopping, but I can't do so 8 I worry about them, " she said. Ma knows 9 the dogs' names, and when she calls one's name, the dog instantly knows she 10 (refer) to it. |
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| Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn't always come home with them. Airline identification tags(标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes. The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don't keep them, since they're not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage. So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The "Unclaimed Baggage Center," is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store's shopping carts on a hunt for treasures. Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran(老练的)shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste. The store's own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake. The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions(获得物) have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor. Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store. |
| 1. Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______. |
| A. they are forgetful B. they are in a hurry C. there is no lost and found office in many airports D. the owners of some luggage can't be identified |
| 2. The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______. |
| A. they have to find the owners B. they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose C. some bags are expensive D. they have to keep the bags as long as possible |
| 3. The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______. |
| A. there's a large variety of goods. B. all the things there are very cheap. C. visitors may purchase something undervalued. D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there. |
| 4. What can we infer from the passage? |
| A. A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage. B. The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small. C. The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use. D. People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store. |
| 5. What is the main purpose of the passage? |
| A. To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America. B. To introduce an attractive place to tourists. C. To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage. D. To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage. |
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| When you're an employee of a company, no matter the size, it's common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move around-by creating a new position for yourself. I did this several years ago, though I wasn't actively looking for a different job. In 2007, I was hired at the Transamerica Life Insurance Company, as a customer service representative in the distributions services department. I processed requests for distributions from our annuity(养老金)policy holders around the country. Someone might have forgotten to sign a form, for example, or might have omitted security information. To solve the problem, I'd mail the person a letter. The company had been through several combinations, so in our department alone we had a collection of about 140 templates(模板) for letters related to distributions. The longer I worked with the letters, the more I saw how they could be improved. Some had overlapping information and could be combined. Some had incorrect grammar or needed updating. I also noticed that industry terminology(专业术语) wasn't standard across all the versions. When I told my department supervisor about this in 2008, she agreed that the letters needed revamping. She said I should stop what I'd been doing and start the new work. In a relatively short time, I was able to make numerous improvements and reduce the number of letters to 70. It was an informal job change until a managers' meeting several months later. At that meeting, a vice president who was unaware of my new work mentioned that the division's entire stock of 1,700 letters should be reviewed. My manager told her that she knew the perfect person for the job-me. The position was still considered temporary when I took on the extra tasks, but I was able to show that the work had value, and I was officially promoted and given a raise in November 2009. |
| 1. According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is true? |
| A .The author admired those who got a promotion in his company. B. The author tried his best to get a promotion in his company C. The author was eager to seek another job. D. It is no surprise to see people around us change their positions. |
| 2. Which of the following problems with the letters is NOT mentioned in the passage? |
| A. Some information needed to be united. B. Some information was overlooked. C. Some had grammatical mistakes. D. Industry terminology didn't meet the standard. |
| 3. The underlined word "revamping" in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to . |
| A. improving B. rebuilding C. repeating D. strengthening |
| 4.The author started to review the letters when . |
| A. he was hired by the company B. his department supervisor agreed his idea C. he was recommended at a managers' meeting D. he was promoted |
| 5. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? |
| A. Where there is will, there is a way. B. Don't let the chance go, when it comes. C. Creating a position, and earning a promotion. D. Ways to get a promotion. |
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| It was reported last week that developers could take photos from Apple mobile and Google Android devices without the phone owners knowing that the images were being taken. In Apple's case, developers can also obtain the location information for each photo. Senator(参议员) Charles Schumer said in a telephone interview that his office had spoken with officials at both Apple and Google on Monday. "We asked them if they could find a way on their own to prevent Apple from having access to private info," Mr. Schumer said. "They were friendly and open to the idea that this ought to be changed." On Sunday, Mr. Schumer said that he planned to send a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (联邦贸易委员会) asking the agency to investigate Apple and Google after the privacy concerns came to light. Claudia Bourne Farrell, an F.T.C. spokeswoman, said the agency had received the letter but she could not comment further. "It sends shivers up the spine to think that one's personal photos, address book, and who knows what else can be obtained and even posted online without consent," Mr. Schumer wrote in his letter to the F.T. C. "If the technology exists to open the door to this kind of privacy invasion, then surely technology exists to close it, and that's exactly what must happen." Mr. Schumer said if Apple and Google could not come to an agreement to fix the problem, then he would be forced to take the issue further. He said other companies had been willing to work with his office to fix issues. "I'm optimistic that we can get this changed without any regulation," he said. "If it's not changed, then we'll look the F.T.C, and if that doesn't work then we'll look at legislative approach." The F.T.C. has warned companies to try to be more vigilant(警醒的) in their efforts to protect consumers when it comes to privacy. |
| 1. The senators spoke with officials at both Apple and Google . |
| A. to discuss whether it is illegal to have access to private information. B. to stop them from developing the technology of taking photos. C. to urge them not to invade consumers' privacy. D. to keep them from obtaining the location information for each photo. |
| 2. Which of the following statements is true? |
| A. Privacy invasion from Apple has existed for a long time. B. Privacy invasion from Google has existed for a long time. C. Apple and Google have decided to make a change. D. Mr. Schumer takes the privacy concerns caused by Apple and Google seriously. |
| 3. Mr. Schumer's letter to the F.T.C. mainly shows that the technology to open the door to privacy invasion . |
| A. causes people to worry about the safety of their personal information . B. can be used if permitted. C. causes personal information to be posted online without permission. D. causes privacy invasion to happen frequently. |
| 4. If the privacy concerns can't be solved with the help of the F.T.C., . |
| A.The companies will be fined. B. The companies will be closed. C. The senators will turn to legislation. D. The senators will force the companies not to invade privacy. |
| 5.Where can we read about the passage? |
| A. In a science report. B. In a newspaper. C. In a magazine D. In a textbook. |
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| As students and teachers returned to school on Monday after the publication of performance ratings (等级) for 18,000 teachers, many parents said they were giving the reports serious thought. Yet there was an equal measure of skepticism among parents that test scores have any relationship with teachers' competence. Some said they already knew how good a teacher was by walking into the classroom or by monitoring their children's progress. "I'm the kind of person who likes to see for themselves," a father in Queens said. Others worried about how their fellow parents, perhaps ones with sharper elbows, might respond. Will they demand a new teacher? Move their children to a new school? Elizabeth Sane, the mother of a fourth grader at the Ella Baker School, a kindergarten-through-eighth- grade school on the Upper East Side, said that her daughter was switched to a different teacher's class over the summer, and that it was "like adding salt to the wound" when she saw the high ratings for her daughter's previous teacher. Her daughter's teacher this year did not receive a rating because he previously taught high school. Ms. Sane said that the rating was not the only factor that influenced how she assessed a teacher's performance, but that the data used for teacher evaluations mattered. But other parents dropping their children off at the Ella Baker School said they did not trust teacher ratings based on test scores any more than they wanted their children's learning measured only by the state exams. "Some people take it as the final word, but it doesn't change who they are as teachers. The ratings aren't accurate, and the whole student testing thing needs to be thrown out," said Lydia Delgado, whose child is in the second grade. |
| 1. Paragraph 1 tells us that |
| A. All the teachers received a rating given by the students. B. All the teachers will receive a rating at the end of each semester, C. Most parents took the teachers' ratings seriously. D. About half of the parents doubted the ratings to be reliable. |
| 2.What does the underlined part "with sharper elbows" mean? |
| A. With the ability to change the situation. B. With a good relationship with the school. C. With a stong will to succeed. D. With strong elbows physically. |
| 3.Paragraph 4 shows that Elizabeth Sane |
| A. was on the side of giving ratings to the teachers. B. regretted having sent her daughter to another class. C. didn't think her daughter's previous teacher was better. D. wanted her daughter to return to her previous class. |
| 4. Which of the following statements is true? |
| A. The teacher ratings were decided by the test scores of the students. B. Ms. Sane evaluated a teacher's performance only by the rating. C. Lydia Delgado didn't think the students' scores should be kept. D. To give ratings to teachers will come to an end in the near future. |
| 5.The attitude of the author towards the way to assess teachers' competence is . |
| A. supportive B. critical C. indifferent D. objective |
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| 基础写作 。 以下是政府颁布的有关禁止食用野生动物的规定的主要内容。 目的： （1） 加强野生动物资源保护，维护生态平衡。 （2） 倡导文明的生活方式和健康的饮食习惯。 相关规定和措施： （1）餐饮业经营者不得加工、出售禁止食用的野生动物及其产品。 （2）对于违反本规定的经营者，将被勒令停业并可能予以罚款。 【写作内容】 根据以上内容写一篇英文报道，内容包括： 1.禁止食用野生动物的目的； 2.规定和措施。 【写作要求】 只能用5句话表达全部内容。 【评分标准】 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。 |
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| 读写任务。 阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。 Education does Count（excerpt）-Bill Gates Hundreds of students send me e-mail each year asking for advice about education. They want to know what to study, or whether it’s OK to drop out of college since that’s what I did. My basic advice is simple and heartfelt. “Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn.” It’s true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out - and I’d love to have the time to go back. As I’ve said before, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider. In my company’s early years, we had a bright part-time programmer who threatened to drop out of high school to work full-time. We told him no. Quite a few of out people didn’t finish college, but we discourage dropping out. Having a diploma certainly helps somebody who is looking to us for a job. There’s not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high school and success in later life, of course.But it’s a real mistake not to take the opportunity to learn a huge range of subjects, to learn to work with people in high school, and to get the grades that will help you get into a good college. 【写作内容】 1．以约30个词概括这段短文的内容； 2．然后以约120个词谈谈你对教育的看法，内容包括： (1) 为什么有些学生想中途放弃学业去创业； (2) 你认为读书与事业之间的关系是怎样的； (3) 你自己有何打算。 【写作要求】 1．在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事，也可以参照阅读材料的内容但 不得直接引用原文中的句子； 2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。 [评分标准] 概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。 |
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