第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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, 选项中有两个多余选项。
The wife-carrying World Championship has been celebrated in a small town in central Finland since 1992. In 1992, the people of the town decided to restart some long-forgotten traditions. 71He was said to only accept men as members of his gang who proved their worth in challenges. At that time, it was also a common practice to steal women from neighboring villages.
72A large number of competitors, people, and journalists from Finland to Canada attend the Wife-carrying World Championship every year.
73The Wife-carrying World Championship is held on a 253.3 meters long official track. The track has two dry obstacles and a water obstacle, about a meter deep. The wife to be carried may be your own, or your neighbor’s. The minimum weight of the wife to be carried is 49 kg. If she is less than 49kg, the wife will be given a heavy bag to carry. Each time a competitor drops his wife, that couple will be fined 15 seconds. 74
Alongside with the Wife-carring World Championship, there is also a team competition. The distance is the same but three men in the team carry the wife in turns. At the exchange point the carrier has to drink official “wife-carrying drink.” Then he may continue the race. 75
While the Wife-carrying World Championship is being held, there are bands playing music, a wife carrying dance and other forms of entertainment.”
| A．There are a few basic rules. |
| B．People everywhere hold the event. |
| C．A special prize is awarded to the team. |
| D．Do you know how these traditions restarted? |
E．This event is becoming increasingly popular.
F．The winner is the couple who complete the course in the shortest time.
G．Back in the late 1800s, there was a robber called Rosvo-Ronkainen in that area.
第二部分回答问题（共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分）
阅读下面短文，根据第9 至第12小题的具体要求，简单回答问题。
There are amazing things in the world. The story about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster（尼斯湖水怪）, is one of the widely spread legends(传说) in the early 20th century.
On July 22, 1933, two visitors, Mr. and Mrs. George Spices, were driving along one of the most famous lakes in the highlands of Scotland. Suddenly they saw an animal on the road in front of them. Unlike any other animals that they had seen before, it had a very big body and a very small head, but no legs. When Mr. and Mrs. Spices saw it, it was moving towards the lake like a snake. Later on, the animal was described like a long black or green dinosaur, and it was informally called Nessie.
Soon, stories about this strange animal and Loch Ness became famous all over the world. Now people are still interested in Nessie and many visit Loch Ness so that they can see Nessie.
There are different opinions on this legend among scientists. Anyway, they are all sure that a kind of large animal lives in the lake and believe that they are going to find out what it is some day.
9. When did Mr. and Mrs. Spices see Nessie?(不超过4个单词)
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10. Where is Loch Ness?( 不超过2个单词)
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11. Why do many people visit Loch Ness?(不超过3个单词)
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12. What is the thing that all scientists are sure about Loch Ness?(不超过13个单词)
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第二节摘录信息（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在文后的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。注意：每空不超过三个单词。
My name is Jane. My job is to write stories and newsletters for a magazine. My hobby is traveling and I hope to visit Great Britain one day. I’d like a pen-pal from London, who is interested in discussing the differences between Europe and Asia. I love listening to pop music and playing football.
I’m Manuel. I’m a businessman and have a large company with many workers and clerks. I’d like to find a pen-pal who is also a businessman and lives in North America. I like using the Internet.
I am working in a university. I speak English, French and Russian. My family name is Jackson but my students usually call me Sarah. I’d like a pen-pal who is fond of language learning working in Oxford University. I don’t like using computers for learning and I believe that true language can only happen in a classroom.
I’m Peter and interested in the differences between East Europe and North America. I love riding my horse and listening to jazz. I usually get up at 7 o’clock and go to school around 7:30 in the morning. I want to find a pen-pal who has the same interest as me living in Sydney.
Cindy is my first name. I’m working in a travel agency. Sometimes I am called Mr. Guide as I am working. I’d like to find a pen-pal who comes from Europe. I like playing the piano and listening to jazz. I’m interested in history, but I don’t like to discuss languages.
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Traveling, listening to pop music and 63.________ |
London |
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Businessman |
Using 65._________ |
North America |
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PART FOUR WRITING
SECTION A
Directions: Read the following passage．Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information for the passage．
Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer．
The Chilean earthquake, measuring 8.8 – magnitude, which struck early Saturday morning, released 500 times the energy of the 7.0 – magnitude quake that hit Haiti (海地) last month, a geophysicist told CBS’ “The Early Show. ” Tsunami warnings were issued for much of the Pacific, including Hawaii, following the quake that struck near the Chilean coast.
"When the earthquake occurred, it moved the land and then it moved the water causing the tsunami," said U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Jessica Sigala. "And the coastal areas of Chile have already noticed the wave heights up to about 7 feet."
Sigala said Hawaiians can expect to see the waves from this tsunami around 11:20 a.m. local time (about 4:20 p.m. ET). "So we have to wait and see how big the waves will be."
"It's not so much the height [of the wave] but it's the width, it's how long the duration, and then it's also the speed at which it's traveling," said co-anchor Kelly Cobiella "Correct me if I'm wrong, but these waves are traveling at the speed of a jetliner, about 500 miles per hour?"
"That's correct. It's a big block of water coming onto the land," Sigala said.
Chile has already experienced several aftershocks following the quake.
"Aftershocks are definitely a concern," said Sigala. "We always see aftershocks with a large quake and a shallow quake, which this one was. And as of right now, we've located about maybe 15 aftershocks and those are of the larger kind. I'm sure they felt much more than that.
"A shallow earthquake just means that it happened pretty close to the surface," said Sigala. "And because of that the energy is really close to the surface, where all the buildings and people are."
50 deaths caused by aftershocks have been reported, according to the national emergency agency, adding the estimate casualties to 960.
Title: Concerns after 71.
I. Tsunami:
●72.: much of the Pacific, including Hawaii
●Cause: the earthquake moved 73.
●Wave Heights: about 74.
●75.: about 500 mph
II. 76.:
●Reason: the Chilean Earthquake was a 77.and a 78.earthquake, which always have them after the major one
●Number: at least 79.
●Loss caused: 80.
第四部分：任务型阅读（每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据短文的内容要点完成文章后的表格。注意：补全填空应符合语法和搭配要求，每空只填一个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上的相应位置。
To tweet, or not to tweet?
A guide to the social networking/ microblogging service Tewitter
SINCE its creation in 2006, Twitter, the social networking service, has taken cyber space by storm. At first glance it might seem like Facebook, but Twitter is in a league of its own, connecting people with fast-paced updates. It has become a place for activities, celebrities, businesses and everyday people to let others know about videos, opinions, interesting news, advertisements-and, yes what they are eating for lunch.
Twitter: n. a free social networking service that connects users through fast-paced status updates.
Twitter-er: n. one who uses Twitter.
Tweet: n. short updates or messages, of 140 characters or less, wh ich are posted on your profile and sent to your followers.
Retweet (RT): n. unofficial Twitter feature that indicates a re-posting of a tweet from another user. Often uses the text RT@username (of the original source) before the post.
Follower: n. one who receives another user’s updates on his or her Twitter profile.
Direct message: n. a private message sent from one Twitter-er to another.
The phenomenon includes a host of new vocabulary terms and concepts that every self-respecting Twitter-er should know. Here’s a quick course on Twitter.
So you’ve finally been swept up by the techno-tide and gotten a Twitter account. But what to write? Who knew 140 characters could be so overwhelming?
Darren Rowse of the TwiTip blog(www.twitip.com) recommends a two- step tweeting process: figure out what your follows want, and then give it to them. Some combination of cool links, conversation- starting quotes or questions , retweets and photos works well, Rowse writes.
Keep in mind that Twitter doesn’t directly offer photo hosting. You will need to use a third-party site like TwitPic (www.twitip.com) to upload your photos. Other sites, like TwitVid (tweetdeck.com/beta) can be used to post videos.
If you th ink the Twitter Web Site too complicated, try a Twiiter client—Tweetdeck(tweetdeck. Com/beta) and the Mac-only Tweetie(www. stebits. com)are popular, and both also are available as iPhone apps(应用程序).
Even without an iphone, you can update you Twitter on the go. After adding your phone number to your Twitter account, you can text updates to 40404(check Twitter’s Web site for numbers to use outside the United States)
But no matter how you tweet, remember that people can see what you post, and Twitter might not be the best place to complain about your boss, even if you make your Twitter private, your followers may not share your sense of discretion.
Twitter is crowded with celebrith accounts. The famous , who once avoided the media in their private lives, are posting everything on Twitter for all the cyber world to see, gathering followers in the millions. Who’s leading the celebrity pack? TwitterCounter(www.twittercounter.com), a site that tracks the most popular Twitter users, lists Ashton Kuntcher and former fashion model, as the nost popular Twitter-er with, as of our publication date, 2,691,112 followers.
Title: To tweet, or not to tweet?
| Introductionto Twitter |
(71) in 2006, twitter, the soclal networking service, has enjoyed(72) among the cyber world. |
| Basic Twitter(73) |
●twitter ●twitter-er ●tweet ●retwwet |
| (74) to tweet your tweets |
●Follow a two-step tweeting process, according to the (75) of Darren Rowse. ●Use a third-party site to upload your photos and post videos. ●Try Twitter clients to help you (76) Twitter, among which the Tweet-deck and the Mac-only Tweetie are well (77) . ●Add your phone number to your Twitter account if you don’t have an iPhone. ●Be(78) of what you post even if your twitter is made private |
| Celebrity twitter-ers |
Celebrties now are (79) about tweeting, among whom Ashton Kutcher is the most popular, (80) by the largest number of twitter users. |
第二节，阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。注意：如果选E，则将A和B同时涂黑；如果选F，则将C和D同时涂黑。
请阅读下列某书店各书架的相关信息：
Section A: Do-It-Yourself Section -- On these shelves customers can find the latest manuals on how to do everything from building a computer to constructing your own home.
Section B: Sports & Leisure Section -- Stocks a large range of the latest books on your favourite sporting teams and events. Pick up the perfect Father's Day present here.
Section C: Humour Section -- A great selection of joke books, funny stories and wonderful real life adventures that are sure to keep the reader laughing for days.
Section D: Business & Finance - Students, business people or anyone interested in the world of commerce are certain to find the book they are after here. We have special subsection for international trade and e-commerce.
Section E: Biography - Find out about the lives of your favourite sports stars, singers, actors and other famous people from today and the past. Learn what they had to go through to become successful and the effect it had on their lives.
Section F: Education - Has a huge range of textbooks and supplementary material covering all the major high school and university subjects. Buyers showing their student cards receive a 15% discount on all purchases from this section.
阅读下列关于各书籍的信息，匹配书籍与其所应放置的书架：
71. The Delighted Eye - by Prof. John Nash - The 1994 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, whose ideas have influenced a generation of the world's greatest economic minds, tells his life story: growing up in a small town in America, becoming one of America's most influential mathematicians and his battles with mental illness.
72. Mother Tongue: The English Language - by Bill Bryson - Bryson's book is a journey through the history and different aspects of the English language , one that is both informative and hugely entertaining. As with most of Bryson's books, fun comes before facts and readers will be left with a smile on their faces.
73. Into Thin Air - by John Krakauer - is a riveting first-hand account of a disastrous race to the top of Mount Everest. In March 1996, `Outside' magazine sent veteran journalist and experienced climber John Krakauer to join the team led by the famous Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of the race eight people were dead.
74. ReadyMade: How to Make (Almost) Everything - by Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne - beautifully written with great factual information. The theme behind this book is re-use, re-claim, re-cycle and there are many detailed easy-to-do projects for the reader to try such as making a photo frame from a book cover or a pot for your plants from plastic shopping bags.
75. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron - by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind - As the title suggests the authors cover the rise of the American electricity company to become one of the 10 richest companies in the world and its spectacular fall into dishonor and bankruptcy. A perfect guide on what not to do in business.
第二节：阅读填空（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空填一个单词。
Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion , the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail , we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted.
Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not , we will learn something , and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. Furthermore, if we give up , we have no chance of attaining our goals any more , but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.
| Topic: Never Give UP |
| Possible meanings and the author’s opinions: |
| 1.The words “ Never give up” can__71__ others or oneself and express one’s determination. 2.A person who wants to ___72___ should have the quality . So we should never give up. |
| The ___73____ : |
| 1.If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve ____74___, so when we fail in our first attempt at something new, we should not___75____ ourselves but try again. 2.Always giving up means that we will not be able to ___76____ any progress. 3.Never giving up will make us learn from the mistakes we’ve made before and learn the ___77____ so as not to make the same mistakes. 4.To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us ___78____ourselves, we must not give up but challenge ourselves. |
| Conclusions: |
| If you give up, you will have no__79____of reaching your goals. Never give up and you will attain your goals sooner or ___80____ |
第二节：根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项多余选项。（共5小题，每小2分，满分10分）
（M="Mike" B=Ben）
M: Hi, Ben. My dad and I are going boating tomorrow.
B: Wow! That’s cool!
M: What’s your plan for the long weekend?
B: I’ll watch late night shows on TV and get up as late as I like.
M:61
B: Maybe not. But these are the two most enjoyable things I can think of.
M:62
B: What do we need hobbies for? We don’t even have enough time for schoolwork.
M:63But hobbies can help you to relax.
B:64
M: Well, take baseball for instance. You simply must get schoolwork out of your head while standing in the outfield.
B: Otherwise I’ll either get hit or lose a catch.
M: 65
B: Exhausted, but satisfied.
M: You feel that you have finished a job.
B: You bet!
M: There! See what I mean?
| A．How are you today? |
| B．That isn’t much of a plan, is it? |
| C．You may have a point there. |
| D．And how do you feel after each game? |
E. Are hobbies that great?
F. Oh? Tell me how it works.
G. Don’t you have a hobby?
第二节信息匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。
以下是一些图书的信息：
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History has forgotten the shocking cruelties unleashed on the animals of Britain in centuries past. But their grim legacy remains in the language we speak. The rescued dogs, cats, rabbits and horses who live with so many of us today ultimately owe their survival to British reformers, writes Kathryn Shevelow in For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement. These men and women, she writes, “forced the law for the first time to become responsive to the plight of animals.”
B
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World By Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Grand Central Publishing 277 pp. $19.99
C
I once interviewed a little girl who lived in a run-down trailer. Her family faced every kind of economic and social deprivation you can imagine, yet she was bright and cheerful with a cherished plan for her adult years.
“I’m going to have a job that has to do with rescuing animals,” she confided in me.
How many of us there must be – we who dream of saving the animals! That means that, potentially, there’s a huge audience for Benjamin Mee’s real-life animal-rescue story We Bought a Zoo.
D
"The heartwarming and true story of Wesley, a barn owl, and his human friend and biographer, Stacey O'Brien. Ms. O'Brien, a biologist, rescued Wesley as an injured owlet, and this wonderful book reveals insights into owl behavior gained through her 19 years living with Wesley. Her words say it best: "He was my teacher, my companion, my child, my playmate, my reminder of God.""
E
A former Wall Street Journal nature columnist and author of the best-selling “Red-Tails in Love,” Winn once again tackles urban wildlife with gusto. Winn’s engaging tales begin with her love of bird watching, but as she trains her binoculars she discovers that she’s not alone in her urban oasis. Through her curiosity for nature, she finds other like-minded people – citizen scientists – whom she befriends. Together they gather at night to identify moths’ wing patterns and watch with fascination the mysterious mating rituals between two slugs hanging from a tree limb.
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It should surprise no one that the best way to preserve nature is to ensure that all of its parts are in place. But the reality is that humans have long been waging a war against large carnivores – lions and tigers and bears, to name but a few. The result, says author William Stolzenburg in this absorbing and delightful work of natural history, is that we have thrown the balance of nature out of whack. The science he presents is not all new, but the scientific perspective Stolzenburg reflects will be fresh and illuminating to many readers.
以下是一些图书的封面。请匹配图书的封面与它们所对应的信息。
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第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Most drinks stating that they are fruit-flavored （水果味道的） contain no fruit at all, while most of the rest contain only a small quantity of fruit, according to a study carried by the British Food Commission．
"Shoppers need to check the labels（标签）before buying drinks, though sometimes the actual content can be non-existent," said Food Commission spokesperson Lan Tokelove．"Food production is highly competitive．___71 __ It will increase profits, and consumers won't always realize they are being tricked."
Flavorings are focused on the flavors of natural food products such as fruits, meats and vegetables, or creating flavor for food products that do not have the desired flavors．Researchers analyzed the contents of 28 strawberry-flavored products sold in stores． 72 Of the 11 products that did contain strawberries, five of them contained less than one percent real fruit．In addition, each juice box contained nearly eight teaspoons of sugar．
73 Let’s take jam as an example. Some strawberry-flavored jam was labeled as containing no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners, but it contained absolutely no strawberries at all.
74 Consumers have the rights to know clearly about what they have bought．Under current UK law. Food packages do no not have to distinguish between natural and artificial flavoring. “Describing a product as strawberry flavor and covering the surface of the packed with pictures of stawberries is misleading. 75 Unfortunatcly, it is also legal and widespread,” Tokelove said.
| A．The products which contain real fruit are popular with people． |
| B．Even products advertised as more natural often contained no fruit． |
| C．They found that about 60 percent of them didn't contain any fruit at all． |
| D．If companies can cut their costs by using flavoring, they are likely to do so． |
E．It is important and necessary to demand a small amount of flavoring in the products．
F．Actually the product contains just a tiny percentage of strawberry or even no fruit at all．
G．The Food Commission suggested all flavors used in a product should be listed on the packaging.
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题共35分)
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：任务型读写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下列短文，根据所读内容在文章后的横线上填入恰当的单词。注意：每个题号后只填1个单词。
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be all unusual field for economists(经济学家), but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on incentives(鼓励),provides an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of(剥夺) an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school — the prophecy(预言) becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in avicious circle(恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advant-ages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female ______76_____ in developing countries
| Viewpoint |
Educating girls is more beneficial than any other _____77_____. |
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| Families |
From low-income families |
From educated mothers’ families |
| Attitudes |
Girls are of 1ess _78_than boys. |
Development should be for all __79__ |
| Practices |
There is ___80__ investment in daughters. Girls are made to stay at home, _____81___ housework. |
Girls and boys have ____82____ chances. |
| Consequences |
A vicious circle |
A virtuous circle |
| Significance |
Educating girls ____83____ to social benefits, ____84_____ advantages and health practices, including family planning. |
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Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. |
第二节根据对话内容，从对话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。（注意：61—65题涂到卡上 E="AB" F="AC" G=AD）
M：Lovely day, isn’t it?
W：Mm, yes, _61_ And it’s supposed to get warmer.
M：Yes, that’s true. You know, though, I’m always a little worry to see winter go.
W：_62_
M：Well, I love skating. In fact, I used to teach skating for a living.
W：Oh? That sounds interesting. _63_
M：I work at Bank of America. How about you?
W：__64_
M：Here?
W：No, I’m from Chicago. I’m just visiting here for the wedding.
M：Oh, I see.
W：By the way, _65_ I’m Helen Keller.
M：Nice to meet you. My name is John Smith.
A．But what do you do now?
B．It’s very cold.
C．It’s really warm.
D．I guess I should introduce myself.
E．I’m on the radio station.
F．What’s your name?
G．Really?
第Ⅱ卷（共35分）
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：对话填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下面对话，并根据各题所给字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确的形式，使对话通顺。
| D="David" P=Peter D: Peter , ten years ago you wanted to become a doctor . . . P: Yeah , but unfortunately I didn’t (76)m the requirements . D: So what did you do then ? P: Well , I was very (77) d , but I just had to move on and do something else with my life . So I took a year off and worked as a volunteer on an aid program . That made me realize (78)h important it is to raise money to help people (79)l a poor life . So that’s what I do . D: Can you explain a bit more about what you (80)a do ? P: I go to see people , put (81)f our suggestion and organize activities to collect money . D: So have you (82)a_____any of your goals ? P: Well , I guess so . I always said I wanted to help (83)o people . D: And what about your plan for the (84)f ? P: My girlfriend and I intend to get married next year . D: (85)C_____! |
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阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答下列小题。
Cell phones are everywhere-everywhere except Aztec High School.
A new policy put in place at the beginning of the school year by the Aztec School Board forbade cell phones from the school’s campus.
“They are interrupting the educational process,” said Kirk Carpenter, the Aztec High School headmaster. “There is no educational benefit from having them here.”
The new policy started recently afrer long discussions between school and district managers. Aztec school officials said that cell phone use had become a problem during testing sessions.
Carpenter said, “There are also a lot of issues with cell phones. The bottom line(问题的关键) is that they are not in line with what we are trying to do bere, which is providing an education for our students.”
Although the headmaster has heard of no serious objections to the new rule, the complaint he hears most often is parents’ being concerned about contacting students directly in case of an emergency.
“That actually slows down the process,” said Carpenter. “If a parent calls a student’s cell phone, it still needs to go through the office. We can’t just let the student leave school. We don’t know who is on the line. They will still need to call the office to get their children free to leave.”
“If you need to contact a student, you canand they will give a message to the student. It still works well,” he added.
Aztec official Linda Paul said, although she never imagined the effect cell phones would have on education, she supports the decision made by the school. Paul added that AHS is not the only campus in the district to have taken such measures.
Cell phone use for teachers, of course, is a different matter. “We hope our teachers know enough not to be on the phone during class, ” Paul said. “I have never seen one of my teachers on the phone during class. ”What is the best title for the passage? (no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________Fill in the blank in the eighth paragraph with proper words or phrase to complete the sentence. (no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
In the campus of AHS, the students’ having cell phones doesn’t do good to education.
_______________________________________________________________________________What’s your view about the ban on having cell phones in high school ? Why? ( no more than 30 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________Translate the underlined sentence in the sixth paragraph into Chinese.
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第二节：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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。
The people below are all looking for a course on Chinese to study. Read the following information about the six courses. Decide which course would be the most suitable for the people mentioned in questions 61-65 and then mark the correct letter (A-F) on your answer sheet. You can choose any letter more than once, and some of the letters may not be chosen.
______77. Mathew majors in media and hopes to understand Chinese broadcasting and TV News and communicate with the Chinese people.
______ 78. Sarah is a Learner of Chinese with a fairly good knowledge of basic Chinese grammar and a vocabulary of 2500, hoping to improve her Chinese ability in speaking, reading and writing.
______ 79. Lois majors in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and hopes to improve her ability in translation.
______ 80. Dennis once has taught himself Chinese and can speak a little Chinese but with poor pronunciation and grammar, hoping to meet the needs of everyday life and study, and understand each other in basic communication through training.
______ 81. Georgia specializes in the Chinese language and culture at the average. He plans to have a tour in China.
A. Comprehensive language skill training
100 lessons in total focusing on pronunciation, grammar and discourse (语段). To enable the learner to master the basic knowledge of the Chinese language, to have the basic ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, so that they are able to communicate with others and to meet the needs of everyday life, study and society. This will lay a foundation for further study of Chinese.
B. Intermediate (中等) Chinese Comprehensive Course
40 lessons in all, focusing on the training of the comprehensive skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing of intermediate Chinese. To enable the students to recognize, understand and use the active and less active words, to improve their ability of expressing themselves in paragraphs and discourse, to master the new words, patterns, grammatical structures, paragraphs and discourse and means of connections so as to express the meaning of the texts correctly and fluently in paragraphs and discourse.
C. News Listening
Based on frequently used words, typical sentences and information and concentrating on improving the ability of listening comprehension. To improve the ability of collecting information, to grasp the knowledge and skills they have learned and to understand the broadcasting and TV news of similar themes and relevant level of difficulty with the correctness of 80%. To build up the foundation for further study.
D. Elementary English-Chinese Translation
25 classes in total, including various styles such as poems, popular science, political comments and news, about every aspect of everyday life. The texts vary from easy to difficult and combine theory with practice as well as translation and interpretation. About 185 hours are needed. To familiarize the learner with the equivalent (对应的) Chinese expressions of English. To enable them to know usage of Chinese and English words and sentences, cultural differences and the background knowledge.
E. Elementary Spoken Chinese in Business
24 units in all. Chinese words and expressions in business and trade are introduced in the form of vivid situational dialogues, notes and exercises. To enable the learner to master the words and expressions of elementary spoken business Chinese and to communicate with others in trade and business.
F. Chinese Human Geography
Introduction to geographic environment and cultural phenomena in various parts of China, such as natural features, historical backgrounds, religious sites, ancient battle fields, dramas and arts, traditional products, and special food, etc. Through the introduction to historical and cultural sites and scenery, the learner will have a general view about Chinese geography, history, culture and regional features.
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