After decades of effort, the city is still trying to _____ how to ban smoking in public places.
A. look through B. get through
C. figure out D. take out
It was on ________ Saturday in _______ July of 2009 that the famous scholar of Chinese traditional culture, Ji Xianlin, passed away.
A. /; / B. /; the
C. a; the D. a; a
When she was doing the cleaning yesterday, Mum found the ring that she _____ years ago.
A. loses B. has lost
C. lost D. had lost
假设你是郁雷，是上海育才中学高三的学生。你的英国网友Jack发来电子邮件，告诉你他将于今年暑假来中国旅游，并决定来上海和你呆一周。但他有些情况不清楚。请你给他回一封电子邮件。
注意：1．词数：60个左右；
2．文中应包括方框内所有的提示内容，可以适当发挥。
阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给首字母的提示，在横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。
Marie：Jerry，is today Tuesday the fifth，or am I（1.）m ?
Jerry：I'm not（2.）q sure，either．Let me have a look．Oh，I am afraid you're mistaken．Marie．It's Tuesday the seventh．
Marie：Oh，my God! I hope this afternoon Miss Defoe will stay at the（3.）t office．I must tell her that I'm going to give up my biology．Do you think the teacher will（4.）a me to do so?
Jerry：But why are you stopping biology? You're（5.）f of it, aren't you?
Marie：Yes，but I've（6.）m too many classes because of my part-time job．I'm so far（7.）b everyone and maybe I will（8.）f the exam．So it's better for me to give it up this term．
Jerry：That's a（9.）S ．
Marie：Yeah，but（10.）l biology is only a course for us to choose this term．I hope I can start again next year．
Four pieces of News
News Item 1
ChongQing—A man has received compensation of more than 130,000 yuan（US&15,662）for being wrongly convicted of murder and serving nearly seven years in jail．Tong Liqing，who is now 41，was jailed for killing his brother's maid．At his trial，Tong said he had admitted to the crime to escape further police beatings．His case attracted the attention of a local lawyer who spent six years finding evidence to prove Tong's innocence．
News Item 2
Tokyo—An earthquake shook Tokyo on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries．National broadcaster NHK said there was no danger of tidal waves．The earthquake measured a moderate 6.5 on the Richter scale．NHK said the epicenter was off the coast of the Kii peninsula in western Japan．
News Item 3
Hong Kong—More women from the Chinese mainland intend to visit Hong Kong in search of Mr. Right after restrictions on travel to Hong Kong were eased．In the first seven months of this year，some 18,000 couples registered for marriage in Horn Kong．For one third of these newly married couples，husbands or wives were from Chinese mainland．According to the China News Service，local matchmaking agencies have recently received more inquiries from women who are from the mainland，wanting to meet well-educated men with a relatively good income．
News Item 4
Nanjing—A report that three kindergarten teachers knelt down before a South Korean couple to apologize，in Nanjing，of East China's Jiangsu Province，has triggered wide criticism．
At a local kindergarten，a Chinese teacher frightened a South Korean child by saying she would cut off his fingers if he continued to make mischief．Although the kindergarten had apologized to the couple and dismissed the teacher surnamed Yang，the mother insisted that Yang should kneel down before her．
Sheng Dalin，a columnist，wrote in the XINXI SHIBAO that it was enough to fire the teacher and make an apology to the couple，but the mother's request was beyond all reason．
1.“Excessive Apology” may be a good title for ．
A．News Item 1 B．News Item 2 C．News Item 3 D．News Item 4
2.Which of the following will be the best heading for News Item 3?
A．Women married to Hong Kong B． Mr. Right in Hong Kong
C．Match girls D．A Hong Kong matchmaking agency
3.Which of the following is true according to the four pieces of news?
A．Tong Liqing from Chongqing was wrongly jailed for nearly 7 years before a local lawyer proved his innocence．
B．The quake in Tokyo was not a moderate one．
C．Girls from Chinese mainland intend to marry to a man whoever is a Hong Kong resident．
D．The columnist，Sheng Dalin，thinks that the teachers should kneel down before the kid's mother．
