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| One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather.Several times,it __1__ several obstacles(障碍物)in its path.And after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detou r(绕道). At one point, the ant had to cross a crack about 10 mm wide.After some __2__ thoughts,the ant laid the feather over the crack,walked across it and picked the feather up on the other side,then continued on its way.I was __3__ by the cleverness of this ant.It was only a small insect,lacking of __4__ yet equipped with a brain to reason,explore, discover and overcome. But this ant, like the other twolegged creatures __5__ on the earth, also shares human failings. After some time the ant __6__ reached its destination-a flower bed and a small hole that was the entrance to its __7__ home.It was there that the ant met its __8__.How could that large feather possibly __9__ such a small hole? Of course, it couldn't.So the ant, after all this __10__ and using great brightness, overcoming problems all along the way, just gave up the __11__ and went home.The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its journey and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden. Isn't our __12__ like that? We worry about our families; we worry about the __13__ of money and we worry about all kinds of things.These are all burdens-the things we pick up along life's path,and drag them around the obstacles and over the cracks that life will bring, only to __14__ that at the destination they are __15__ and we can't take them with us. | ||||
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| 语法填空。 A good teacher is many things to many people. In my own experience, the people I respect most are the teachers __1__ demanded the most discipline from their students. I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school. I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict person. I remember very __2__(clear) a sign over her classroom door. It was __3__ simple sign that said,"Laboratory-in this room the first five letters of the word was emphasized, not the last seven."In other words, I guess, labor __4__ her was more important, which means __5__(make) speeches. She prepared her work very carefully and demanded us to do the same. We got lots of homework from her. __6 _ she had broken her arm, and everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework __7__(reduce), but it continued just the same. She checked our work by stamping her name at the bottom of the papers to show that she had read __8 _. I think sometimes teachers who demand most are liked __9__. But __10_ time goes by, this discipline really seems to benefit the students. |
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| BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment. The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on September 23, 2011 in New York. Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation's website. In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria. After detecting (检测) 380 extracts (提取物) made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972. An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said a statement from the foundation. The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945. Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels" for their knack (熟练技术) of gaining future recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945. 1. Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE? A. She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award. B. She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. C. She is the first scientist in the world to win America's respected Lasker Award. D. She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria in 1969. 2. Lasker Award is awarded by ________. A. New York Foundation B. the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation C.Chinese Medical Sciences D. Albert and Mary 3. What's the influence about Tu Youyou's "drug therapy for malaria"? A. It has surprised the people in the world. B. It has reduced malaria. C. It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine. D. It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world. 4. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Lasker laureates can not receive the Nobel Prize at the same time. B. Lasker laureates can receive the Nobel Prize at the same time. C. Lasker Award is the Nobel Prize. D. Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels". 5. What's the main idea of the passage? A. Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. B. An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. C. Americans founded the Lasker Foundation. D. Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin. |
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| Ask savvy investors(投资者) how they learned their first lessons about money, and they'll probably tell you lessons their parents taught them. The money values we learn as children stay with us the rest of our lives. If you are a parent, teaching your children the value of saving and investing will benefit them the rest of their lives. Here's what you can do: Help your child begin to save. Open savings accounts for your children, and teach them how the bank adds interest to their savings that makes their money grow. Encourage your children to save a little from every bit of money they receive, such as allowances, birthday gifts, etc. You may even want to set up a matching program, contributing fifty cents for each dollar your child saves. Teach your child about stocks(股票). A child in elementary school can start learning about how businesses work. Once your child understands the basics, ask him or her to think about some of the businesses that might be good stock investments. Then use Morningstar Mutual Fund Guide(available at your library)to find a quality mutual fund that holds some of these companies, or a mutual fund that caters to children such as the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund. Many funds accept regular monthly investments as low as $50 a month, so these funds can be a good way to teach children about the stock market while saving for their college education. Encourage early IRA(个人退休金账户)saving. The new Roth IRA is a great way for children who are working in summers or after school to begin saving for their future. Imagine how much money you'd have today if you had saved $3,000 a year since you were a teenager! Let your kids handle their own money. We all learn by doing, so letting your kids manage a segment of their budget(预算)will let them earn valuable financial lessons.They may make mistakes, but they will be small mistakes that may help them avoid larger mistakes as adults. 1. Which would be the best title for this passage? A. Why to Teach Your Children to Save B. How to Teach Your Children to Save C. Tips for Saving for Children D. Start Good Saving Habits Early 2. A matching program means ________. A. that you should set a good example to your children B. that you should provide enough money for children so that they can save some C. that you encourage your children to compete with each other in saving D. that you encourage your children by giving some extra money for them to save 3. According to the author, you should teach your children about investment when he/she is ________. A. in the kindergarten B. in primary school C. in middle school D. in college 4. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund? A. It is usually with high benefits. B. It accepts regular monthly investments. C. It accepts small investments as low as $50 a month. D. It caters to children who can afford small investments. 5. The advantage of letting your kids manage their budget lies in ________. A. that they will make great businessmen in the future B. that they will know the difficulty of managing a budget C. that they will avoid making bigger mistakes in the future D. that they will share happiness of managing their own budget |
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| Today, people all over the world are moving out of small villages in the country to go and live in big, noisy cities. They are moving from the peaceful hills, mountains, fields, rivers and streams of the countryside to the busy world of streets, buildings, traffic and crowds. This movement from rural(乡下 的) areas to urban areas has been going on for over two hundred years. In many countries, the main reason people come to live in towns and cities is work. After one or two large factories have been built in or near a town, people come to find work, and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There is usually a_residential_area nearby, too. The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and shops, so many people come to live in the area to provide these services and a city grows. In every major city in the world, there is a business district where the big companies have their main offices. In the United States, this area is usually in the city center downtown. It is here that you can see many huge skyscrapers(摩天大楼)and office blocks. The people who work here often travel a long way to work each day. Many of them live in the suburbs of the city, far away from the industrial area and the city center. Some suburbs are very pleasant, with nice houses and big gardens. There are usually parks for children to play in and large department stores where you can buy all you need. But what is the future of the big cities? Will they continue to get bigger and bigger? Perhaps not. Some major cities have actually become smaller in the last ten years, and it is quite possible that one day we will see people moving out of the major cities and back into smaller towns and villages. 1. The underlined phrase "a residential area" means an area________. A. where people can buy things B. which is suitable for living in C. where people can do business D. which is near a city center 2. Why do people move to live in cities or towns? A. Because they can live more comfortably there. B. Because they like noisy life better than peaceful life. C. Because they mainly want to find work there. D. Because they are sure of having a better life there. 3. Which of the following statement is NOT true about the business district? A.Big companies usually have their main offices in the business district. B. People usually work and live in the business district. C. A business district usually lies in the city center downtown. D. Nearly every major city has its own business district. 4. In the United States, many people work in the center of a big city________. A. and live there B. but live in the suburbs of the city C. and live in another city D. but live in rural areas 5. We can infer that this movement from rural to urban areas ________. A. has been going on for more than 2,000 years B. will surely continue in the future C. may not continue in the future D. has now stopped already |
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| Facebook means never having to say goodbye.The social media website has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends.Last week,a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request.I accepted and waited for "Easy E" to send me a greeting of some kind.He had sought me out,after all. I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son.However,I'm pretty sure we won't ever write walltowall,let alone email each other.But he'll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list. My pool of friends consists of family members,college buddies,coworkers from past and present,and friends of friends.There are 35 in all.If I spent some time uploading old email addresses,I'm confident that I could increase my friend count actually. A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends,former classmates,distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better.And some people can even handle hundreds of onscreen relationships,keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions.After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends. Thanks to email,the inability to schedule facetoface meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close.But even with email,people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back.That's normal.People move from school to school,job to job,city to city.You never have to feel guilty for breaking away. Every day,the masterminds of Web 2.0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However,convenience_can_be_a_crutch(拐杖). Some things shouldn't be simplified.When it comes to friendship,there can be no shortcuts. 1. According to Paragraph 1,the website is famous because ________. A. it has an interesting name of "Facebook" B. it helps people get in touch with old friends C. it can send people a greeting of some kind D. it reminds people of events in the past 2. From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer ________. A. would write to the friend quite often B. asked the friend to email him C. did get some information about the friend D. would keep in touch with the friend forever 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now. B. The author communicates with all the 35 friends by emails. C. The list of 35 friends doesn't include the old email addresses. D. It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count. 4. What does the writer mean by saying "However,convenience can be a crutch(拐杖)"? A. The masterminds of Web 2.0 also sell crutch online. B. Taking a crutch is a new way of making friends online. C. Convenience is dangerous for human communication. D. Convenience is not really good for human communication. 5. What does the author think of the convenience of communicating online? A. The technology could not keep true friendship forever. B. The social website of Facebook means nothing at all. C. There will be no ways of making real friends online. D. People will not lose friends with the help of the Facebook. |
| 信息匹配。 阅读下列应用文及相关信息,并按照要求匹配信息. 请阅读下列交友信息,并按照要求匹配信息. A. Piotrek Kowalski, 18, from Italy. Looking for a penfriend who is interested in discussing the current (当前的)political situation in the world. Like jazz and playing tennis in my free time. B. Olga, 32 years old, historian, from Warsaw, Poland. Looking for a penfriend to exchange(交流,交换) views on the political problems in East European countries after the Second World War. C. Jack, 27, from London. My favorite pastime(消遣)is learning foreign languages. I go to evening language classes and use my computer to improve my language learning by visiting Internet sites. D. Elle, 35 years old, from Paris. I like learning languages, but do not like using modern technology. Need a penfriend who also enjoys learning languages in a traditional(传统的)way. E.Petro, 42, businessman, from Argentina(阿根廷). Trying to get a penfriend with the same profession (职业)and lives in North America. Married, with three children and like surfing the Internet. F. Kim Lee, 18, high school student in Seoul, South Korea. I love traveling and hope to visit Great Britain in the future. I would like a friend about the same age to get some information about the differences between life in Europe and that in Asia. 以下是交友者的信息.请匹配交友者与他们所对应的信息. 1. Mary, 21, a university student on history, comes from Scotland and would like to find a penfriend who comes from East Europe. She is interested in the things of the past in those countries. 2. Helga, 33, comes from Germany and speaks French, English and Russian. She prefers a penfriend who is also fond of exchanging ideas about language learning by writing letters and she firmly believes that language learning can only happen in a classroom. 3. Alessandro, 25, comes from Rome. He is interested in finding a penfriend who speaks English and can exchange ideas on using the computer for learning purpose. 4. Bob, 17, a middle school student in Liverpool, is interested in making a penfriend. He once visited China with his parents when he was a child and then fell in love with Asian culture. He would like a friend of the same or nearly the same age. 5. Jim, 35, has a company in Boston. His hobby is surfing the Internet in his spare time and looking for any useful information for him, whether at home or abroad. |
| 基础写作。 2011年3月日本发生了大地震并引发了海啸(tsunami)，导致了核电站放射性物质的泄露，引发了“该不该停止使用核电站”的讨论，请根据下面提示写一篇英语短文。 [写作内容] 1. 灾害情况简介。 2. 核电泄露后果。 3. 此事件引发人们的忧虑，建议： (1)采取措施，确保安全；(2)停止使用核电站；(3)避免造成对人类和环境的破坏等。 [写作要求] 只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。 提示词：福岛 Fukushima；核电站 nuclear power plant；放射性物质 radioactive substance [评分标准] 句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ |
| 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。 The three-and almost all other South Florida high school students-have to go outside of the classroom to earn their diplomas (文凭), doing what schools call“community service”. Broward public schools require 40 hours to graduate. Palm Beach County public schools require 20, and most private and charter schools (特许学校) require at least that much. The purpose: to give students a taste of the real world, and the chance to explore a career and create a habit of volunteering. “We hope that when they finish high school they'll continue service，”says Mike Roland, student activities officer for the Broward School District. About half of US public schools require community service, according to a national study. Broward School Board (董事会) member Bob Parks says encouraging community service has launched all kinds of new projects, including tutoring and food collections. Carroll, a junior student at South Plantation High School, has connected with FLIPANY, a nonprofit (非营利的) organization that offers cheap physical activity and food to lowincome families. He helps teach children about cooking and healthy eating. “It has been a lifechanging experience，”says Carroll, who is now learning toward a career as a sports trainer.“I want to find a career encouraging people to lead a healthier lifestyle.” [写作内容] 1. 以约30词概括上文的主要内容。 2. 以约120词对短文所讲述的现象进行议论，内容包括： (1)越来越多的人从事社区服务工作； (2)社区服务工作的社会意义； (3)作为学生，应该怎么做。 [写作要求] 1. 作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事，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，语篇连贯。 _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ |