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| I am writing this story to express the important value of sportsmanship. Some years ago, my traveling 1 team took part in a nationwide competition. This competition is very 2 and the atmosphere is far from 3 . After we completed our performance, the next competing team laughed at us and gave us a dirty 4 as we passed them. They looked 5 at us and made fun of our costumes and our performance. My team and I were all very 6 , even to the point of tears. One of my team members 7 that we should “boo（发嘘声）"them as they performed. Finally I said, “Let’s teach them a lesson.” My teammates all looked at me. I was the oldest member of the team and their role model. What I said next totally 8 them. I said, “They are on stage right now. Let’s go and 9 them.” I then looked up at the stage and started to scream, “Come on!” My teammates all started to shout loudly with me to show support for the team. At first they were 10 . Then I noticed that they were having 11 screaming for the team that a couple of minutes before they hated. When the team finished dancing and walked off stage, my teammates and I all started to 12 them. Most members of the opposite team 13 and said “thank you”, and they were a little embarrassed. My team and I felt a lot better about the 14 . After that, my teammates understood what a great 15 it was and they were glad that they had shown good sportsmanship. | ||||
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| 语法填空。 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 In many countries, ___1___ is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. ___2___, in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd. But this type of housing, ___3___(call) co-housing, is gaining ___4___ (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes are popping up across the country. For many people, this way of life is a relief to the busy modern lifestyle. A co-housing community has ___5___ (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities ___6___ (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned. A co-housing complex is a place ___7___ residents shop, cook, and eat together. Residents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play ___8___, ___9___ many families like. Other residents like the feeling of living in a “ village”. Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for ___10___ (little)money than they would pay for nearby apartments. |
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| A 33-year-old financial analyst in California recently quit his job to devote himself to an unpaid job teaching math on the Internet, and his lessons are reaching almost 100,000 people a month. Salman Khan’s voice is heard every day on the net-by tens of thousands of students around the world who are hungry for help learning math. He has posted 1,200 lessons on YouTube-lessons that appear on an electronic blackboard, which range from basic addition to advanced mathematics for science and finance. And they are free. Khan lives in Silicon Valley, with his wife, a doctor, and their new baby. He got the idea for his “Khan Academy” four years ago, when he taught a young cousin how to convert kilograms to grams. With Khan’s help, the cousin got good at math, and Khan began a new career. Now, Khan records his lessons himself, but he never goes on camera. “It feels like my voice in their head. You’re looking at it and it feels like someone’s over your shoulder talking in your ear, as opposed to someone at the blackboard, which is distant from you,” he said. When Springfield High School in Palo Alto, California invited Khan to speak in person-he immediately connected to the students there. The idea of short lessons that can be played over and over again attracted high school senior Bridget Meaney. She says she had trouble with math in the seventh grade. “I think the teachers are good, but they can’t teach at a speed that’s perfect for everyone,” she said. “I like the idea of learning something in class but then going back and pressing pause or rewind and actually getting a deeper understanding of it.” Originally, Khan kept his lessons short because of YouTube restrictions. Now, he thinks short is better. “Education researchers now tell me that 10 minutes is how long someone can have a high level of concentration. And anything beyond that and your brain switches off,” he said. For Khan, teaching math, science, and finance is just the beginning. He says he’s ready to expand his YouTube site to include other subjects as well. |
| 1. What gave Khan the idea of teaching math online? |
| A. His success in helping his cousin learn math. B. His discovery that many students found learning math difficult. C. A suggestion made to him at a local high school. D. His interest in Internet teaching. |
| 2. Why does Khan never go on camera? |
| A. He’s too shy to show his face on camera. B. It’s restricted by YouTube for education videos. C. He wants to keep distance from the viewers. D. He wants to create a more relaxed learning atmosphere. |
| 3. From the passage, we know that ________. |
| A. Khan travels to many schools to promote his lessons B. Khan plans to include more subjects in the future C. Khan gives live math lessons every day for free D. Khan set up the Khan Academy with his wife |
| 4. Why does Bridget Meaney like Khan’s lessons? |
| A. Khan teaches seventh grade math better than her teacher. B. The lessons can be watched repeatedly until fully understood. C. She can perfectly follow the pace of Khan’s teaching. D. She cannot concentrate when learning in class. |
| 5. What does Khan mean by “short is better” in the 6th paragraph? |
| A. Keeping the lessons short can ensure better concentration. B. YouTube recommends short lessons for its site. C. Short lessons encourage students to return to the website. D. Students enjoy short mathematics lessons more. |
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| The knowledge society will be a highly competitive one, for organizations and individuals alike. Information technology, although only one of many new features of the next society, is already having one hugely important effect: it is allowing knowledge to spread near-instantly , and making it accessible to everyone. Given the ease and speed at which information travels, every institution in the knowledge society-not only businesses, but also schools, universities, hospitals and increasingly government agencies too-has to be globally competitive, even though most organizations will continue to be local in their activities and in their markets. This is because the Internet will keep customers everywhere informed on what is available anywhere in the world, and at what price. This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. At present, this term is widely used to describe people with considerable theoretical knowledge and learning :doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants chemical engineers. But the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists”: computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists, paralegals. These people are as much manual（体力劳动)workers and they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains, but their manual work is based on a substantial amount of theoretical knowledge which can be acquired only through formal education ,not through an apprenticeship（学徒期). They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers, but they see themselves as "professionals”, just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 21th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant social-and perhaps also political-force over the next decades. |
| 1. The chief reason for keen （激烈的）competition in the knowledge society is that _________. |
| A. organizations and individuals are easily influenced by information B. customers keep track of new products worldwide C. anyone can have access to knowledge anytime and anywhere D. local organizations such as universities and hospitals will be globalized. |
| 2. The quick spread of knowledge in the next society___________. |
| A. is based on information technology B. results from a highly competitive society C. is likely to increase information flow D. will become the biggest problem to tackle |
| 3. “Knowledge workers” mentioned in the essay most probably refer to ________. |
| A. those with primary and secondary education B. those who work with hands rather than brains C. those who have acquired theoretical knowledge through apprenticeship D. those who have received higher education and got theoretical knowledge |
| 4. All of the following are characteristic of “knowledge technologist” except that ________. |
| A. they spend more time on manual work than on mental work B. they are equipped with a large amount of theoretical knowledge C. they see themselves professionals rather than traditional skilled workers. D. They acquire skills through traditional apprenticeship |
| 5. The underlined word “dominant” in this passage probably means________. |
| A. most influential B. most interesting C. most diligent D. quite available |
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| The drug store was closing for the night and Alfred Higgins was about to go home when his new boss approached him. "Empty your pockets please, Alfred,” Sam Carr demanded in a firm voice. Alfred pretended to be shocked but he knew he’d been caught. From his coat he withdrew a make-up kit, a lipstick and two tubes of toothpaste. "I’m disappointed in you, Alfred!” said the little gray-haired man. "Sorry, sir. Please forgive me. It’s the first time I’ve ever done such a thing,” Alfred lied, hoping to gain the old man’s sympathy. Mr Carr’s brow furrowed as he reached for the phone, “Do you take me for a fool? Let’s see what the police have to say. But first I’ll call your mother and let her know her son is heading to jail.” "Do whatever you want,” Alfred shot back, trying to sound big. But deep down he felt like a child. He imagined his mother rushing in, eyes burning with anger, maybe in tears. Yet he wanted her to come quickly before Mr. Carr called the police. Mr. Carr was surprised when Mrs Higgins finally arrived. She was very calm, quiet and friendly. “Is Alfred in trouble?” she asked. "He’s been stealing from the store,” the old man coolly replied. Mrs. Higgins put out her hand and touched Mr. Carr’s arm with great gentleness as if she knew just how he felt. She spoke as if she did not want to cause him any more trouble. “What do you want to do, Mr. Carr?” The woman’s calm and gentle manner disarmed the once-angry store-owner. “I was going to get a cop. But I don’t want to be cruel. Tell your son not to come back here again, and I’ll let it go.” Then he warmly shook Mrs. Higgins’s hand. Mrs. Higgins thanked the old man for his kindness, then mother and son left. They walked along the street in silence. When they arrived home his mother simply said, “Go to bed, you fool.” In his bedroom, Alfred heard his mother in the kitchen. He felt no shame, only pride in his mother’s actions. “She was smooth!” he thought. He went to the kitchen to tell her how great she was, but was shocked by what he saw. His mother’s face looked frightened, broken. Not the cool, bright face he saw earlier. Her lips moved nervously. She looked very old. There were tears in her eyes. This picture of his mother made him want to cry. He felt his youth ending. He saw all the troubles he brought her and the deep lines of worry in her grey face. It seemed to him that this was the first time he had ever really seen his mother. |
| 1. Which of the following is true according to the passage? |
| A. It was the first time Alfred had stolen anything. B. Alfred tried to sound big to hide his fear. C. Mr. Carr set a trap to catch Alfred stealing. D. Mr. Carr had planned to forgive Alfred from the beginning. |
| 2. What does the underlined word “disarmed” probably mean? |
| A. annoyed B. made less angry C. convinced D. got over |
| 3. What was the mother’s attitude toward Alfred? |
| A. She felt disappointed with him. B. She was very strict with him. C. She was supportive of him. D. She was afraid of him. |
| 4. What impressed Alfred most about his mother at the drugstore was ________ |
| A.how angry she was B. that she didn’t cry C.that she was able to save him D. how effectively she handled Mr. Carr |
| 5. From the last paragraph, we know that Alfred ________. |
| A.was no longer a youth B. felt proud of his mother C.wanted his mother to be happy D. felt guilty and regretful for his deed |
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One reaction to all the concern about tropical deforestation is a blank stare that asks the question, |
| 1. The underlined word "synthetics" probably means . |
| A. natural rubber B. tropical materials C. man-made material D. commercial rubber |
| 2. In the last paragraph the author tries to |
| A. tell people how to avoid the tropical deforestation B. persuade people to buy something synthetic C. show us how important it is to protect the tropical forests D. let people realise the effect of tropical deforestation |
| 3. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? |
| A. The forests are losing their function in turning carbon dioxide into oxygen. B. Many of our daily uses are related to the tropical forests. C. Tropical plants can be used to make industrial products. D. High carbon dioxide levels will make the earth warmer. |
| 4. The author's attitude towards the tropical deforestation is . |
| A. puzzling B. cold C. supporting D. opposed |
| 5. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? |
| A. Tropical Forests B. the value of Tropical Forests C. Tropical Forests and Our Life D. The Greenhouse Effects W |
| 阅读理解。 阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项（A，B，C，D，E和F）中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。 1. Miss Liang is now working in a joint venture (合资企业) as a business woman. Her major work is to contact the foreign businessmen through emails, calls and letters. She has no trouble communicating with the English-speaking people face to face. However, when it comes to business writing, she is not sure about the grammar and the form. 2. Mr. Lin taught himself English. Three months ago, when he was required to work as a sales representative in Britain, he had trouble in communicating with his English customers. The problem is with his pronunciation and intonation (语调). He wants to find some websites offering spoken English teaching with correct pronunciation and ideal sound effects. 3. Ms. Wilson is now teaching English in China. She has found that the major problem with her students’ reading comprehension lies with their limited vocabulary. However, memorizing a list of 10-20 new words every day is a boring task for the students. She wants to find some games from the internet, so that her students may have interest in learning and using the words. 4. Zhang Hui is not interested in reciting English texts. He says it is boring. He is more interested in practicing his newly learned English expressions in classroom activities. But when he is at home on holiday, he has no one to talk to in English. His mother suggests him looking for interactive websites from the Internet. 5. Chen Yuan is going for his undergraduate study in America. His friend has rented a room for him from an old American couple. This is his first time to go abroad and stay with the natives. To get along well with them, Zhang Ming is eager to learn English idioms and everyday topics. So, he searches the Internet for some useful websites. ELT Website Review
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| 写作。 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。 There have been many types of ecological disasters caused to the Australian ecosystem by introducing other animals. The most famous one was the introduction of the rabbit. The rabbits in Australia are mostly from a group of wild rabbits in south eastern Australia. These were released in the hope of starting a business selling rabbits’ skin. This did actually happen, but there was nothing to stop the rabbits spreading to the rest of mainland Australia. Now we have billions. They compete with the native animals, damage the vegetation and severely reduce the potential carrying capacity of the land for grass-eating animals like sheep and cattle. As well as the disasters caused to the land ecosystem, there have been ones in the water. The most obvious one was the deliberate introduction of European carp (欧洲鲤鱼) to the River Murray. The carp were introduced to eat the weeds growing in the river. Now they have taken over much of the river’s ecosystem and severely reduced the number of native fish. Not all destructive introductions in Australia were of foreign species. There are several cases of native Australian animals being taken to different places in Australia and causing destruction. Koalas were introduced to Kangaroo Island and increased to such an extent that they are killing off the Manna Gum trees. 【写作内容】 1. 以约30词概括阅读材料的主要内容； 2. 由于人类无休止地向大自然索取，无限制的掠夺自然，造成了资源枯竭等。大自然 毫不留情地对人类进行了报复。请你以约120个词谈谈你对人类和大自然和谐相处的看 法，内容包括： (1) 你认为人类为什么要与大自然和谐相处？ (2) 举例说明人类与大自然由于不和谐相处而带来的灾害。 (3) 在日常生活中，我们应该怎样与大自然和谐相处。 【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。一些科学事实。 |
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