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Every day  we are bombarded with images, videos, music and news. In this age of  visual and aural hyper-stimulation, the medium of radio is making a phenomenal  comeback.
“We're at the dawn of a golden age of audio," said US-based podcaster Alex  Blumberg in an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. In the last month alone, 15  percent of US adults listened to a radio podcast. These statistics, released by Edison  Research, reveal the successful evolution of traditional radio broadcasts to the present  day's digital podcast format. The term "podcast," was coined in 2004, but the trend only  started gaining mainstream popularity in recent years. Since the leap in consumer  demand for smartphones and tablets, podcast subscription rates have only accelerated.
The appeal of the podcast partially resides in its multiplatform delivery and  on-demand capabilities. You can tune in during those extra minutes of the day when  you're walking to the shops, waiting in a queue or riding the subway. Similar to television shows, podcasts are generally free to download and most offer new content  every week.
Donna Jackson, 22, Sydney university media graduate, listens to podcasts two or three times a week, via iTunes .”I listen while I'm pottering around the house doing  something else. It makes completing a boring task a lot more enjoyable..... And it's an  easy way of keeping in touch with what's going on in the rest of the world," she said.
Unlike television and music, the audio format has the potential to create a deep impression on readers. Blumberg says this comes down to the podcast's ability "to  create intimacy and emotional connection." Sydney University undergraduate Hazel  Proust, major in social work and arts, agrees. "When you're tuned in, it feels as if the voice of the podcast's narrator is talking directly to you. It's comforting," said Proust.
From the passage, we can learn that____.

By saying "We're at the dawn of a  golden age of audio," Alex Blumberg wants to
Tell us that ______

For podcast, which is wrong?

From the last paragraph, we can infer

IT'S a mystery that has puzzled scientists. Five years ago, researchers found an area in the Atlantic Ocean seabed, where a part of the Earth's outer layer, or crust（地壳）, is  missing. A thick layer of dark green rock, which is usually found deep inside the planet, lies exposed.
The crust, mantle(地幔) and core（地核） are the main layers that make up the planet. The mantle rests between the crust and the core.
Last month, a team of 12 British scientists set off on a six-week trip to study the hole in the crust.
The hole is about 4,800 meters below sea level and is believed to be more than 48,000 meters long and more than 48,000 meters wide. Scientists think that there are other nearby gaps. "It is like a window into the interior (内部) of the Earth," says scientist   Bramley Murton, who is part of the research team.
The site where the hole is located is part of a ridge (山脉) of undersea volcanoes.  There, two of the plates that make up the Earth's surface meet. The plates are always   moving. When the plates move away from each other, lava rushes up from the mantle to   fill the gap and form a new crust. But this did not happen in the area where the hole is located.
The hole is giving researchers a good opportunity to study what's below the Earth's   surface. The team will use a special robotic tool to film the area and get samples of the exposed mantle. They hope to study everything from the chemistry of the oceans to how the Earth's surface behaves under the sea.
What's the title for the passage?

For the main layers of the earth, which one is right?

How does the hole come into being?

By studying the hole, the scientists want to do the following except____.

SOME teenagers take up smoking during the holidays either because they become "rich" enough to afford a pack of cigarettes or they think they look "cool". Everyone knows that "smoking is bad for you", but do smokers really know what the health warnings mean to them?
Smoking, the world's second leading cause of preventable death, kills 4.9 million people a year, the United Nations said on February 27. The world has about l.2 billion smokers and World Health Organization surveys show that about 20 per cent of them are children aged between 13 and 15 years old.
On the same day, a global treaty(公约) aimed at encouraging children not to smoke and help people kick the habit came into force. This is the first worldwide agreement on a public health issue. It will see strong warnings added to cigarette packets and a ban on all tobacco advertising.
Young smokers may think little of the health effects of smoking. But smoking can stop them from making friends, as most non-smokers don't like being around smokers.
"I feel sick when I see people of my age smoke. Smokers make themselves look less educated ," said Shi Qingyu, a Senior 3 student at Luanxian No 1 High School in Hebei Province. Once while on a bus, he asked a girl who was smoking next to him to put out her cigarette.
For Wang Gezhu, a Senior l  girl from Wuxi Furen High School in Jiangsu Province,boys who smoke are less attractive.
"Boys that smoke may think they are cool or impressive, but I think they look weird(怪异的) compared to other ordinary students in my eyes. They only do what others won't risk doing," Wang said.
Every one wants to impress others, but there are ways to show off other than smoking.
On February 26, around 200 students from across the country gathered in Beijing to be awarded for their outstanding performance in the 2004 "Sunflower Cup". The programme included several contests in writing, calligraphy (书法), drawing and painting. It aimed to encourage students to take part in meaningful activities so that they could spend their free time developing healthy habits and hobbies.
"Teenagers are energetic and quick to learn, both good and bad things. For the sake of their own health, teenagers should learn to say no to their first cigarette because life as a smoker is a life of addiction. You can't quit," said Wang Zhengqi, deputy  secretary-general (副秘书长) of the Chinese Association on Smoking and Health.
How does the writer give us the health warnings of smoking in paragraph 2?

Smoking can affect the young from the following aspects(万面) except____.

From what the students said in paragraph 5-7, we can learn that

From the passage. what does the author want to say?

Some children are natural born bosses. They have a strong need to make decisions, manage their environment, and lead rather than follow. Stephen Jackson, a Year One  student, "operates under the theory of what's mine and what's yours is mine," says his  mother. "The other day I bought two new Star Wars light sabers(剑). Later, I saw   Stephen with the two new ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones."
" Examine the extended family, and you'll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt,
uncle or cousin in every generation. It's an inheritable trait,"  says Russell Barkley, a  professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance(支配地位) when they sense their   parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.
Whether it's inborn nature or developed character at work, too much control in the   hands of the young isn't healthy for children or the family. Fear is at the root of a lot bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book   From Defiance to Cooperation, "have secret feelings of weakness" and "a desire to feel  safe." It's the parents' role to provide that protection.
When a "boss child" doesn't learn limits at home, the stage is set for a host of troubles outside the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble obeying teachers or coachers, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty lonely as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.
"I see more and more parents giving up their power," says Barkley, who has studied  bossy behavior for more than 30 years. They bend too far because they don't want to be  as strict as their own parents were. But they also feel less confident about their parenting  skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.
Bossy children like Stephen Jackson

The underlined phrase "inheritable trait" in paragraph 2 means

The study on bossy behavior implies that parents _______.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
   Half a minute? A few seconds?
Google engineers have discovered that even 400 milliseconds-as short as the blink of an eye-is too long for most Internet users.
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. People hardly notice such a small time difference, but it does cause them to stop searching, reported The New York Times.
Nowadays, millions of smart-phones and computers are constantly gathering and sending out information. you can get digital "traffic jams". Meanwhile, users are expecting faster and faster service.
Google found that if one website is 250 milliseconds slower than another website ,then people will visit it  less often.  Google said people do expect different things from different websites because they realize not all loading times are the same. For example ,a person will be more patient waiting for a video clip to load than for a search result.
Even so, four out of five online users will click away if a video takes too long to load. This makes “difficult for video websites to choose between the quality of pictures and fast loading times.
Pursuing a higher speed has always been part of the history of the Internet.
In the 1990s,when the World Wide Web first started to become popular,people  called it the "World Wide Wait". But engineers managed to fight the problem with new inventions. They laid a lot of fiber optic cables for high-speed transmissions , they improved software so it would work more smoothly; they placed computer servers all around the world to be nearer to users; all this increased speed.
Nowadays we can enjoy much faster Internet ._  But they will need to keep fighting to keep up with the developing demands of internet users.

E. This is why technology companies are now competing to be the fastest.
F. How long are you willing to wait for a webpage to open before you start to lose your patience?
G it was very crowded and slow;

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A. B.C和D）中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Bush family enjoyed the good things in life as much as anyone else. They       games, books, music, toys, good food and good times. But sometimes           seemed, especially to Mrs. Bush who    the house, that they had too much stuff in the closets, in the drawers, in the basement, and almost         .It made Mrs. Bush a little      .
One day, at breakfast, Mrs. Bush made a (n)            . "This family," she said firmly,  “has too much stuff. It's time to get            of some of them. ”The three children all           with this idea and helped pile used things and unused things they were never going  to use into the car.
Their first             was Home for the Aged where the older went to live. Nurses and  doctors looked after them, but sometimes the older got a little lonely and            ,They liked  visitors and things to do. When the family arrived at Home for the Aged, they            0ut  their games and puzzles to the older and then sat down to play games and do puzzles  with them. They had a           .time and they were sorry when it was time to leave.
Their next stop was the Young Cubs Hospital. The Bush family dropped            their  load of used toys which were very welcome. The hospital workers said the toys would  be given out at the hospital            party.
Their last stop was People Who Care store. This was a store that sold things to               money for those who needed warm clothes and good food. The Bush family lugged all  their old clothes and furniture into the store.
After that, the Bush family         home with warm feelings about what they had done.            they drove along, they passed the lighted            0f supermarkets which were beautifully decorated for Christmas. There was window after window of the very latest things, but they were so filled with special thoughts about helping others that they           noticed the wonderful things in the windows except maybe out of the              of their eyes.

A．read B．played C．enjoyed D．shared

A．there B．they C．it D．this

A．knew B．bought C．sold D．managed

A．anywhere B．everywhere C．nowhere D．somewhere

A．uneasy B．difficult C．ready D．happy

A．announcement B．amusement C．notice D．report

A．away B．out C．hold . D．rid

A．decided B．agreed C．argued D．dealt

A．place B．arrival C．stop D．departure

A．bored B．disappointed C．excited D．determined

A．handed B．carried C．found D．let

A．fine B．bad C．sad D．sorry

A．onto B．into C．out D．off

A．Thanksgiving B．Halloween C．Christmas D．Eastern

A．rise B．arise C．raise D．arouse

A．headed B．arrived C．left D．felt

A．Though B．As C．Since D．Before

A．closets B．houses C．doors D．windows

A．nearly B．hardly C．closely D．immediately

A．corners B．sides C．edges D．covers

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Sahara Desert,      (cover) most of North Africa, is the largest desert in the  world. From north to south the Sahara is between 800 miles       1200 miles and is at least 3000 miles from east to west. Due to the large size of the Sahara, Africa is split into two regions: that     lies above or forms part of the Sahara and the rest of Africa south  of the Sahara. On the west, the Sahara is       (border) by the Atlantic Ocean and on the  east by the Red Sea, and to the north are the Atlas Mountains and Mediterranean Sea. Over 25 percent of the Sahara's surface is covered by sand sheets and dunes.
The Sahara's climate consists     basically two sub-climates ,a dry subtropical  climate in the north and a dry tropical climate in the south. The dry tropical climate is      (general) characterized by mild, dry winters, a hot dry season just before the rainy  season, and an annual temperature cycle. The dry subtropical climate,       ,is  characterized by        (annual) high temperature ranges, cold winters, hot summers and two rainy seasons. There is a narrow strip in the western portion of the Sahara,        the  coast, which generally has cool temperatures        (compare) to the rest of the Sahara  because of the influence of the cold Canary Current.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（八），并在其F而写m该加的词。删除：把多余的词用（＼)划掉。修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面而写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处
起）不计分。
English is an international language which becomes more and more importantly in the world.
In China, English is thought to be the first foreign language which many students  choose to learn. They begin to learn English at early age. It takes them at least one hour to learn the knowledge of English a day, Even the child in the kindergarten have begun learning simple words, it is a normal phenomenon. In addition to, some people think English is superior than Chinese.
In my opinion, though English is of great significant, English is a foreign language. It is hard for us to use it every day. English does help us in reading English original  works, but Chinese can help us learn a true China. Only with the help of Chinese  characters, can Chinese literature shows its brilliance. In order to learn a country's  culture, especial its classical culture, the first thing to do is to learn its language.

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2．向张伟提出建议；
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……
Yours，
John