It’s hardly surprising that weather is a favorite topic for so many people around the world—it affects where we choose to love, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics. Studies have shown the changeable weather can make it difficult to concentrate, cloudy skies slow sown reaction, and high humidity with hot, dry winds makes many people bad-tempered.
If you live in a place like Britain, where the weather seems to change daily if not hourly, you could be forgiven for thinking that the weather is random. In fact, the weather is controlled by systems which move around areas of the globe. In the UK the weather depends on depressions（低气压）, often called lows, and anticyclones（高气压）, also known as highs. These systems start in the Atlantic Ocean, and make their way across the British Isles from the west to the east. Highs bring sunny weather, while lows bring rain and wind. In modern times, human activities seem to be altering weather patterns. Gases produced by heavy industry change the temperature of the Earth’s surface, and affect cloud formation. Some researchers say that factories in Europe and North America may have been one of the causes of the droughts in Africa in the 1980s.
The human race has always tied to guess the weather, especially in areas of the world where there are frequent changes. Traditional rhymes point to early attempts to identify weather patterns, popular poems include:
Red sky at night, shepherds’ delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds’ warning.
Flies will swarm before a storm.
Rain before 7, clear by 11.
While folk wisdom can still provide a guide to help forecast weather, today’s methods of prediction increasingly rely on technology. Satellites, balloons, ships, aircrafts and weather centers with sensitive monitoring equipment, send data to computers. The date is them processed, and the weather is predicted. However, even this system cannot predict weather for longer than about a week.
1.When weather keeps changing, .
A．people become bad-tempered
B．people’s reaction slows down
C．people find it hard to focus on their work
D．people become hungrier
2.What is mainly talked about in the second paragraph?
A．Changes in weather. B．Weather in Britain.
C．African droughts. D．Research on weather.
3.The weather in Britain is .
A．random B．moist C．depressing D．satisfying
4.According to a traditional rhyme, if there is red sky at night, the next day will be .
A．windy B．rainy C．fine D．snowy
5.Which of the following statements in true?
A．Anticyclones often bring rain and wind.
B．Weather forecasting has been done for a long time.
C．Weather could never be predicted.
D．Modern methods of weather prediction are developed from folk wisdom.
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，并将答案填写在答题卡标号的相应位置上。
Anna pushed herself up from the bench and walked steadily with her walking sticks toward the office．As soon as she entered the room, she saw it．_____1.______ blue umbrella was there, unopened, ____2.______ a floor-to-ceiling window．_____3.____（see） it so near, nearly within reach, Anna forgot herself and pointed to her possession．
“That is mine,” she said．“My son brought it to me from Paris and I want it back．”
The man had risen when she entered and he ___4._______（remain） standing．He turned to look at the umbrella ____5.______ she pointed．“Yes．I know the umbrella is from Paris, ” he said, showing a mix of innocence and curiosity．“Actually, it ____6.______（make） in Italy, but it’s sold in Paris．It’s not the one your son gave you．I bought it myself．”
Anna stared at him．Was he claiming that it was his own umbrella? She had run all the way to this office building from the shop _____7.______ her umbrella was stolen．
“My son gave _____8._____ to me,” Anna countered．“ It means everything to me, because my son is ____9.______（die）．”
As soon as she said them, Anna knew she had made a mistake．She had opened herself up to a stranger．He had no business knowing the most important fact of her life, a grief she kept private．___10._____could anyone understand what her son’s death meant to her?
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给出的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We were about to gather up things and return to our car when a man came up. He looked very strong indeed and asked us angrily if we knew that these 1were his own. Father looked troubled and the man 2a notice. It said that camping was 3forbidden. Poor Father explained that he had not seen the notice and did not 4that camping was not allowed. Though father 5, the man did not seem 6.
He asked Father his name and 7. All the way home, we were so 8that hardly anyone spoke a word. This 9thing had spoiled a wonderful day in the camp.
For the rest of the week, we 10what would happen. The following Sunday, we stayed at home 11it was a fine day. About noon, a large and very expensive car stopped outside our house. We were surprised when we saw several people 12to have a picnic in our small garden. Father got very angry and went to ask them what they thought they were doing. You can imagine how 13he was when he saw the man whom we had met the week before! Both men burst out 14. Then Father welcomed the strangers into our 15. We became good friends.
1.A．things B．grounds C．trees D．camps
2.A．put on B．pointed to C．took out D．pointed out
3.A．firmly B．merely C．simply D．finally
4.A．remind B．refer C．remember D．realize
5.A．argued B．agreed C．approved D．apologized
6.A．happy B．satisfied C．pleasant D．delighted
7.A．address B．house C．family D．home
8.A．depressed B．worried C．unhappy D．disappointed
9.A．uninteresting B．unable C．unpleasant D．unfortunate
10.A．expected B．supposed C．imagined D．wondered
11.A．though B．yet C．however D．since
12.A．waiting B．continuing C．preparing D．managing
13.A．surprised B．funny C．acute D．considerate
14.A．crying B．shouting C．screaming D．laughing
15.A．address B．garden C．house D．camp
国际文化交流中心将组织一次由各国学生参加的“和平·友谊”夏利营活动，假设你是李华，从报纸上看到此消息，想参加夏利营，请根据下列有关信息写一篇个人简介。
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姓名：李华 |
性别：男 |
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年龄：18 |
学校：昆明一中 |
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其他：爱好音乐、摄影；善于与人交流，乐于助人；热爱自然；热爱和平 |
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注意：1．词数120左右；开头已给出，不计入总词数。
2．可根据内容要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
I happened to read in the paper about your summer camp a couple of days ago, which is hy I’m now writing to you to present myself for the camp．
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）。如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下面划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
Working in a international company in New York, Bill used 1.
to go to the barber's during working hours to have his hair 2.
cut, which, of course, against the rule: Office workers had to 3.
have their hair cut in their own times．While Bill was at 4.
the barber's one day, the manager came in by the accident to 5.
have his own hair cut．Bill tried to hide his face immediate 6.
he saw the manager, but the manager recognized himself．When 7.
asking why he was having his hair cut in office time, 8.
Bill said calmly, “It grows in office time.” “No all of it,” 9.
said the manager．“Some of it grow in your own time.” 10.
“But I am not having it all cut off.” Bill replied.
There is a joke among flu researchers: “If you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season.” The joke is about the unpredictable nature of the flu virus．Every year it looks different, and every strain (类型) follows its own pattern — it's the reason why new strains like H1N1 are extremely difficult to predict.
Dr．Michael Osterholm is a former adviser to the U.S．Department of Health and Human Services．“I know less about influenza today than I did 10 years ago,” he says in a joking way．“Every stone we've turned over, we get more questions.”
The flu rectums every season and the world experiences terrible pandemics (全国或全世界范围流行的疾病), but researchers still do not understand why some strains infect people and others do not; they are not entirely sure about how the flu is transmitted; nor do they understand why some patients become seriously ill while others develop mild symptoms (症状)．As a result, when a new strain shows up — like H1N1 — they often have little information to fall back on, and the lessons of previous pandemics are only somewhat helpful．While researchers are still putting together a complete picture of H1N1, for example, its most striking difference with the seasonal flu is that the elder1y are not the most vulnerable (易受攻击的) population.
Influenza's unpredictable nature makes it a moving target for researchers, says researcher Allison Aiello at the University of Michigan．“Even if we had complete seasonal flu data from the past, it wouldn't be much helpful for a new strain of influenza,” she explains.
Whi1e researchers are frustrated by the holes in their knowledge, they say, however, that the pub1ic--health community is generally doing a very good job responding to H1N1 with seasonal flu data that do exist．Studying influenza, says Osterholm, is “like looking through the windows of a house you can't get into because the door is locked.” Gathering the data researchers do have is like “looking through the windows to get a pretty good picture of what the inside looks like.”
One thing researchers do know for sure: the best way for people to protect against H1N1 is to get the vaccine once it becomes available to them.
1.What do we learn about H1N1 from the passage?
A．In fact it is not a kind of influenza virus.
B．It is quite possible to predict it in theory.
C．Old people are more likely to contract it than kids.
D．Receiving vaccines will be effective to protect against it.
2.The underlined phrase “fall back on” in Para．3 probably means .
A．rely on B．pass on C．col1ect D．exchange
3.What do we know about previous seasonal flu data?
A．It is useless to study them.
B．It is still necessary to study them.
C．They are misleading most of the time.
D．They are much more helpful than expected.
4.Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A．Outbreaks of the flu B．Symptoms of the flu
C．Mysteries of the flu D．Risks of the flu
