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| In some countries,___pressure to pass____exams tends to cause lack of students' creativity. |
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| We have every reason to believe the print media are usually more____and reliable than Internet. |
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| It is a great____ for a person to be able to drive when he is seeking a job. |
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| This design is_____ satisfactory. So you'll have to try your best to better it. |
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| He insisted on going abroad to have further study____his parents' objection. |
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| She tried her best to___the life there,but failed to make any____. |
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| -Have you found the novel I lent you two days ago? -Sorry,I can't find it____,but I'll give it back to you later. |
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| The cancer risks____ with smoking have been well documented. |
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| Jack is said____ for a fortnight since he went to bed. |
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| I'm very grateful for your help and hope that someday I may be able to do something for you___． |
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| Everyone in the village hoped that he would____after a few days' treatment. |
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| ___genes,intelligence also depends on an adequate diet,a good education and a decent home environment. |
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| The old man said that he would____more people who would not have too much work to do this week to come to do the construction work. |
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| — All the building materials have been washed away. — So I have heard. But there was no sign____a heavy rain was on the way last night. |
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| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old,I was filled with 1 in spite of the terrible surroundings.The families living here,who tried to make their living fromthe land, 2 great losses. I felt sorry especially for the 3 , but I 4 to be hopeless.I decided that where I was,I could do 5 to help them. I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who 6 my knock,"I know that you are 7 and give the birds that come to your yard a little 8 . Please consider me your bird. Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your 9 . I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the 10 children. " No one seemed to 11 giving me a handful of rice, even 12 they had little themselves. On Sunday, I would go to the 13 and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to 14 to the children. One day,I came to a house that had 15 to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and 16 gave me fifty cents,as well as the handful of rice! I began to ask for 17 and rice from the other "bird feeders" ,and they gave them to me. Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering,even 18 only this small way. The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to them for food and clothing. "Consider me your bird. " My 19 idea had not stopped the war,but anyway, it was 20 some peace. | ||||
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| According to decades-long research, women who took low to moderate (节制) daily doses of aspirin had a reduced death rate ,especially from heart disease. The research,based on data from a major trial that has tracked almost 80,000 women since 1976, found that women who reported using aspirin on a regular basis had a 25 percent lower risk of death from any cause than women who didn't take the drug. The risk of death from cardiovascular (心血管的) disease was 38 percent lower for aspirin users, and there was also a 12 percent reduction in cancer deaths that took effect after a decade of aspirin use, the researchers found in their report based on the Nurses' Health Study. However,an accompanying editorial in the journal cautioned that the results were open to debate and far from definitive. The dissenting (持异议的) editorial was based on results of an earlier trial by the Women's Health Study, which followed almost 40,000 women for 11 years and found no reduction in overall deaths. Therefore,the new findings" cannot overcome the accumulated evidence that aspirin is not particularly effective for the primary prevention of death from cardiovascular disease in women. " " This is a complicated issue , " said Dr. Andrew T. Chan, leading author of the new report. "We understand that aspirin has potential health benefits,but who would aspirin therapy(疗法) be appropriate for? There are areas of disagreements that need further study before that question can be answered" , Chan said. But there is information from the two large studies and other trials that can help guide women and their physicians,he said. And anyone who is thinking about daily aspirin should really talk with doctors about the benefits and risks. |
| 1. The new report clearly benefits the women suffering _____. |
| A. heart disease B. cancer C. lose of memory D. aspirin side effects |
| 2. Which of the following questions hasn't been solved according to Dr. Chan? |
| A. Whether aspirin is beneficial for health? B. Which of the two researches is really reliable? C. Who will do the further study in this area? D. Who are proper for this treatment? |
| 3. Which research does the author seem to support? |
| A. The new one. B. The earlier one. C. Neither. D. Both. |
| 4.We know from the last paragraph that women who trust the treatment should ____. |
| A. be very careful about it B. start immediately with the help of their physicians C. concentrate on the benefits instead of the risks D. turn to their physicians for only the benefit it has |
| 5. What is the main purpose of the passage? |
| A. To promote the new aspirin therapy to women. B. To introduce two controversial researches. C. To draw a final conclusion on the debate. D. To help women live longer and healthier. |
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| The most popular way to welcome the new year in the United States is to have a big party. Some parties are at people's homes. But in recent years,it has become more and more common for Americans to go to a hotel or a club or a restaurant on the night of December the 31st. There,they can have dinner, drink and dance. Most New Year's parties have something in common. First of all, they are usually noisy. People sing and bands play. And often, guests pull a cracker when the clock strikes twelve at midnight. People think that loud sounds would drive away the evil spirits of the old year before the new year begins. For many people New Year Eve is the night when they can drink as much as they like. Some New Year's celebrations have ended sadly for people who got drunk and had driving accidents. Radio and television announcements warn people of the danger of drunk driving. Some places offer free rides home for drunken people. The biggest and noisiest New Year party in the United States takes place at Times Square in New York City. Thousands of people gather there. Some of them ring bells or let off crackers. Others blow whistles or car horns. And at 12 o'clock,they begin to cheer as an electric sign in the shape of a red apple lights up on top of a tall building. The Americans keep up important traditions as the new year begins. They make decisions about how to improve themselves in the year ahead. Experts say that the most common New Year decision in the United States is to eat less. But many Americans also promise themselves to stop smoking,or stop drinking wine,or to be nicer to their friends and families. Experts find fewer than ten percent of Americans carry out their New Year decisions. Few want to give up this tradition. Almost everyone seems to enjoy looking back over the year that has just ended and looking forward to a nice beginning of a new year. |
| 1. The article is about____. |
| A. some important traditions in the USA B. when and where the Americans welcome the new year C. New Year' celebrations in the USA D. American ways of life and their interests |
| 2. Most New Year parties are usually noisy,because ____ . |
| A. people sing songs B. bands play music C. guests pull crackers D. people want to get rid of bad luck of the old year |
| 3. In order to prevent car accidents ____on New Year's Eve. |
| A. many Americans promise to stop drinking wine B. drunken people are forbidden to drive, but can be driven home free C. little wine is served at New Year' celebrations D. people are warned of the danger of drinking too much |
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| Free and secure accommodation, no bills and even the odd home-cooked meals. It sounds like the perfect living arrangement for cash-strapped students. Two mothers believe they have devised a way for struggling students to save on accommodation costs when they leave home to study at university. Kate Barnham and Amanda Flude have launched Student Swaps,an online accommodation forum (论坛) for parents and students,in advance of the introduction in September of ~3,000 higher education top-up fees. Their website says,"The principle behind Student Swaps is to enable students to literally swap(交换) family homes. "The website will hold a database of students who would like to swap and link them with suitable matches. So those from one town/city could swap with those from a different town/city. The site describes itself as offering a" cost-free accommodation alternative...at a time of growing student debt". There is no charge for the service at the moment,but Ms Barnham and Ms Flude intend to introduce a ~10 annual fee if it becomes established. However,the National Union of Students ( NUS) has warned that,while the scheme may sound appealing to struggling freshers,it lacks any formal regulation. Veronica King,NUS vice-president of welfare,said, " The fact that this scheme has even been suggested is evidence to the high levels of debt students now face on graduation. " Recent research has shown that students are more likely to live at home in coming years,in a bid to cut down on the cost of a degree. "This is worrying,as it may mean that students choose their university on the basis of where it is,rather than because it offers the best course for them. It also means students will miss out on what is for some-a key part of the student experience-living away from home. " |
| 1. A" cash-strapped" student means one who _____. |
| A. lacks money B. prefers to stay at home C. is careful with money D. wants to change cash |
| 2. What is Kate Bamham and Amanda Flude's purpose of launching Student Swaps? |
| A. To provide cheaper accommodation for students. B. To let students stay close to their universities. C. To help students spend less on accommodation costs. D. To let students exchange ideas freely online. |
| 3. What can students do on Student Swaps? |
| A. They can find students to exchange homes with. B. They can make friends with students from a different city. C. They can borrow money to pay for their higher education. D. They can voice their opinions against the rising cost of a degree. |
| 4. Now many students would prefer a university |
| A. which can give them free accommodation B. which is not far away from their homes C. which offers the best courses D. which can offer home-cooked meals |
| 5. What would be the best title for the passage? |
| A. High Cost Troubles University Students in UK. B. Students Swaps is Welcomed by Students in UK. C. Two Mothers' Good Intention to Help Students in UK. D. Website Helps Students Live at Someone Else's Home. |
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| On a grassy plain in South Africa, thousands of miles from home,two pairs of zoo-bred South China tiger cubs-one-year-old Hope and Cathay and six-month-old Tiger Woods and Madonna are learning to hunt in the wild. The hope is that they will one day pass on their skills to their young, allowing the next generation to get back to wildlife reserves (保护区) in China. A survey shows that the tigers are in more danger of dying out than China's most famous animal,the giant panda. Forty years ago, about 4,000 South China tigers lived in the wild. Today there are only about 30. An additional 64 live in 19 zoos in China,which are all descendants(后代) of six wild animals seized in 1956. The cubs were born in zoos in China and removed from their mothers when they were three months old. Their first home in South Africa was a one-acre camp where they stayed for a month. Their next home was a ten-acre area,where they lived for three months to help them gradually get used to life outside a cage. When the cubs first arrived in South Africa,they didn't even want to leave their cages. It took weeks to get them to eat chicken, used as they were to being fed beef at the zoo in China where they were born. It took months of practice to hunt a live animal and then make the link between the kill and food. Now just a few months on, and living in a 150-acre camp,they have become remarkably skilled hunters. All four animals will finally return to zoos in China while the pioneering pairs' cubs will grow up completely wild. The aim is for the first rehabilitated tigers to go to reserves developed in China by 2008 ,when the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing. |
| 1. The tigers are sent to South Africa so that____. |
| A. their young can live in the wild B. their young can have a better environment C. they can get used to wildlife reserves D. they can live a free life in the wild |
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| 3. The underlined part" the first rehabilitated tigers" refers to _____. |
| A. the tigers sent to South Africa B. the pioneering pairs C. the tigers' next generation D. the zoo-bred tigers |
| 4. Which of the following is TRUE? |
| A. There are about 100 South China tigers at the zoos in China. B. South China tigers at the zoos in China usually eat chicken. C.In the hunting practice cubs didn't eat what they hunted at first. D. The four tigers will appear in the Olympic Games. |
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| For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and places that wash clothes. People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that faced them in this country. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Like most of the other people there, they had come to search for gold. In that largely unoccupied land, the men staked a claim (立界标表明所有权 ) for themselves by placing markers in the ground. However, either because the Chinese were so different from the others or because they worked so patiently that they sometimes succeeded in getting a mining claim to make a profit( where others saw no way to do so) , they became the target of their competitors. They were troubled and attacked in many ways. Often they were prevented from working their claims; some places even passed regulations forbidding them to own claims. The Chinese therefore started to seek out other ways of earning a living. Some of them began to wash clothes for the white miners; others set up small restaurants. ( There were almost no women in California in those days and the Chinese filled a real need by doing this " women's work". ) Some went to work as farmhands or as fishermen. In the early 1860's many more Chinese arrived in California. This time railroad companies brought the men in to construct the first railroad line from Califomia to the East. They were sorely needed because the work was so hard and dangerous,and it was carried on in such an isolated part of the country that the railroad company could not find other laborers for the job. As in the case of the first Chinese in America,these Chinese were almost all males; and like them,too,they encountered a great deal of prejudice. The hostility grew especially strong after the railroad project was completed,and the Chinese laborers returned to California-thousands of them,all out of work. Many of today's Chinese Americans are the descendants (后裔) of some of the early miners and railroad workers. |
| 1. What is the main idea of the passage? |
| A. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during theCalifornia Gold Rush of 1849. B. Many more Chinese arrived in Califomia to construct the first railroad from California to the East. C. Early Chinese immigrants to America experienced a lot of prejudice and discrimination. D. Prejudice and discrimination that Chinese Americans met. |
| 2. Why did the Chinese become the target of their competitors? |
| A. Because the Chinese were different and they worked patiently to achieve a lot of success while others couldn't. B. The Chinese were so different from the others. C. They worked so patiently with little payment. D. There were almost no women in California in those days. |
| 3. What was the fate of the Chinese after the construction of the railroad ? |
| A. They went back to their own country. B. They stayed to work in the railroad companies. C. They went to California to search for gold. D. The hostility grew especially strong. |
| 对话填空。D= Debbie P=Paul D: Have you(1)e____ been to Britain on vacation? P: Oh,yes. I've often been there. D: Where have you been? P: Well,last year,we (2)f ____ to Livepool, but we're(3)a___ been to Scotland and Ireland. We always go in summer because the (4)w____ is better. D: Yes,but there are more tourists. P: Yes,that's right. But it's the(5)s____ in every country. Have you been to Britain? D:Yes,but not on (6)h ____ . I have( 7)m____ several business trips to Britain. P: Which places have you been to? D: Nowhere (8)b___London. P: There are many (9)i ____ places in London. D: Yes. And there are lots of lovely shops,( 10)t ____ . |
| 基础写作。 假设你是校刊的通讯员，上星期天你们班组织四组同学分别参加了几个志愿者活动。 请根据以下四幅图所提供的信息，给校刊的“英语园地”投稿，报道你们的活动及感受。  写作要求： 1 ．只能用5 个句子表达全部的内容； 2 ．注意：文章开头已经写好。 3 ．参考词汇：希望工程-Hope Project; 养老院-old people's home 评分标准：句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。 |
| Last Sunday,our class organized some volunteers' activities,in which all of us took an active part. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ |
| 读写任务（共1 小题，满分20 分） 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。 A grand memorial service was held Wednesday,October 28, 2009,in central Hubei Province to honor three college students who died from rescuing two children from the Yangtze River on October 24. Thousands of people holding chrysanthemums （菊花）went to the Jingzhou Memorial House to see off the teenagers, all 19-year old students from the Yangtze University based in Jingzhou City. The trio （三位）were Chen Jishi,He Dongxu and Fang Zhao.More than 10 students from the Yangtze University formed a ladder with one student holding another's arms to rescue the two boys in the river on the afternoon of October 24. One of the student lost his grip （控制）on his classmates and all of them were in danger. Several members of a winter swimming team nearby came to help. Chen Jishi, He Dongxu and Fang Zhao were swept away in the torrent. People touched by their selfless act had donated more than 500,000 yuan( $73 ,206) to their relatives on Wednesday. Millions of Internet users made online comments on major news portals （入口）to show their grief( 悲伤) ． “I am also a college student.I sorrow for you,”said Liu Zhuoya from northwestern Xi'an City. However,some questioned the sacrifice.“Sacrifice three and rescue two, is that worthwhile?" asked "Tiaozhantianya" on the forum of www. 163. com."Rescue can not be blind as they could not swim.” 写作内容： 1 ．以约30 个词概括短文的要点。 2 ．以约120 个词就“救人是否要考虑自身安全”这个主题 发表你的看法，至少包括以下要点： 1) 当别人有难时，你是否会马上伸出援手？为什么？ 2) 救人时你是否会考虑自身的安全？ 3) 假如你当时在场，你会怎样做？ 写作要求： 1 ．你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，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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