A long time ago, before there was any money (coins or paper money), people got the things that they needed by trading or exchanging. Salt was one of the first items used to exchange for other items. Later, some of the common things that were used for exchanging were tea leaves, shells, feathers, animal teeth, tobacco, and blankets. Around 3000 BC, barley, a type of grain, was used for exchanging.
The world’s first metal money was developed by the Sumerians who melted silver into small bars all weighing the same. This was around 1000 BC. About three hundred years later, people started using coins as official money.
Around 640 BC, people in the ancient kingdom of Lydia ( which was in Turkey) created special coins of exact with and purity (纯度). They were made of gold and silver and were stamped with a lion’s head.
Later, other empires such as Greece, Persia, and Rome adopted the concept of coins and started developing their own in many different shapes and different metals.
Around the year 1000, the Chinese started using paper money. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The Europeans discovered this thanks to Marco Polo who went to China in 1295. the Chinese had different values for the paper notes which were made by the Chinese government.
Around 1661, Sweden became the first European country to make paper money. Until 1850, the Spanish dollar was the coin most widely used throughout the world.
1.What is the best title for this passage?
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A． The history of money |
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B． How people traded in the past |
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C． The invention of paper money |
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D． The use of coins around the world |
2.We learn that before coins and paper money were used, _____.
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A． barley had always been used for exchanging |
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B． only a few people knew how to trade with others |
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C． salt was the most widely used item for exchanging |
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D． many kinds of things were used for exchanging |
3.According to the passage, when did people start using coins as official money?
A. Around 1300 BC. B. Around 1000 BC.
C. Around 700 BC. D. Around 640 BC.
4.The underlined word “adopted” in Paragraph 4 probably means “____”.
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A． replaced |
B． changed |
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C． accepted |
D． invented |
5.Which of the following countries first started to use paper money?
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A．Spain |
B．China |
C．Sweden |
D．Lydia |
语法填空：(共10题，每小题1.5分，共15分）
People can call 911 when they need help. The police will come quickly. This phone number should be used only 26 an emergency. But there have been some problems with people using the 911 phone number. 27 than half of the calls made to it are an accident. These accidental calls are not real emergencies.
Calling 911 when you do not need 28 can be very bad. It wastes the time of the people answering the calls. It can even force someone 29 has a real emergency to wait before 30 (get) the help they need.
Many accidental 911 calls come from cellphones. Sometimes keys on the phone 31 (push) and the call goes through without the owner of the phone knowing that he has called an emergency number. People are trying to find 32 way to solve this problem.
They are testing a new program that might help solve the problem of accidental 911 calls. This program will make 33 (call) of 911 calls push another key on the phone 34 it is a real emergency. People hope that this change 35 (reduce) the number of accidental 911 calls going through.
阅读下面短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Lots of teenagers are trying to enter a university by coping stories and phrases from the internet to fill out their personal statements in Britain. Personal statements are used to show what can make applicants （申请）different as they outline their interests and reasons for studying a particular course. But it seems that some ideas and words are alike, even the same, thanks to an internet site designed to help those who don’t know what to write about themselves. A study found that nearly 800 applications had personal statements containing phrases taken from three online examples. The study, which involved examining 50,000 personal statements, found that 5% used the material from the internet, most from one free website. Borrowed material was most likely to appear at the end of a statement or where the applicant described the reasons for wanting to study a subject. Almost all applications are now completed online, but the new evidence of Internet temptation（诱惑）follow concern that teenagers are cutting and pasting material for A-level coursework(课程作业). A spokesman said later that he and his partners were looking for ways examine whether people appeared to be copying material.
[写作内容]
1．以约30个词概括短文的要点；
2．以约120个词表达你对校园中出现作弊现象的看法，并包括如下要点：
（1）分析某些学生作弊的原因；
（2）指出作弊引起的不良后果；
（3）号召学生们杜绝作弊现象的发生。
[写作要求]
1. 在作文中可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用阅读材料中的句子。
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校的名称。
[评分标准]
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。
（请考生在答题卷上作答。）
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News in Brief栏目的新闻：
News in Brief
A. Coal output set to reach record high of 2.5b tons
Top energy planners are seeking, in the next five years, to raise China’s coal output to an unprecedental(前所未有的) level and, at the same time, reduce the number of large mining disasters.
B. EU likely to impose tax on imports of Chinese shoes
The European Commission is likely to impose a provisional(规定的) tax on imports of Chinese leather shoes, despite disagreement about the move among member states.
C. Bankers confident about figure growth
Chinese bankers are confident about the country’s future economic growth and are satisfied with the government’s monetary policies, an investigation has revealed(展现).
D. Curtain to be raised on Year of Russia
The curtain on the Year of Russia in China will be officially raised next week.
E. Guidance needed to prevent teen pregnancies
They were 16-year-old classmates,studied together regularly and were clearly attracted to each other.
F. FIFA agrees on stiffer penalties to stamp out racism
ZURICH: Soccer’s world governing body FIFA agreed on Thursday to punish acts of racism with severe penalties including the deduction of points and disqualification from competitions.
以下是个人的信息，请匹配他们和他们最想了解的新闻。
56. Moons: Moons works as a chairman of a football club in Africa. He shows great concern for sports news. He has been collecting the evidence of race discrimination in sports field and preparing another report for FIFA.
57. Diana: Diana is an exchange scholar from Oxford University,majoring in philosophy,but she is more interested in psychology of teens.
58. Guo Yuntao: Guo, director of the China Development Research Center for the Coal Industry,had a meeting with Zhao Tiechui, head of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety Supervision. They disscussed how to satisfy growing domestic energy demands and how to prevent large accidents.
59. Michael Chen: Michael is the CEO of Guangzhou Branch of the People’s Bank of China. He believes Chinese economy will continue to grow by no less than 9 per cent this year.
60. Peter Mandelson: Peter is the EU Trade Commissioner. He agreed to allegations that Chinese firms “dumped” cheap shoes in the European Union (EU).
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena off the coast of Africa. He was 51 years old at the time. When doctors examined Napoleon’s body, they said that the former emperor of France had died from cancer of the stomach. That was the cause of death recorded in the official report. However, other doctors disagreed. One doctor who was present during the examination of the body said that Napoleon died of hepatitis. Other historians and medical experts have suggested that Napoleon died of syphilis, tuberculosis, or perhaps malaria. Now, after careful research, a British chemist thinks that Napoleon might have been poisoned -- not by a person, but by his wallpaper.
Napoleon was sent to the island of St. Helena in 1815 after he lost the battle of Waterloo. He was a prisoner on the island. Although he had servants to attend to him, he had to live in one small building. St. Helena is a very wet island, so the walls of the building were always covered with mold. Napoleon became ill from spending too much time inside his house. Almost constantly he had a fever, chills, and felt sick to his stomach. He often felt pain in his shoulders and in his side. His skin turned yellow. He got frequent headaches, and he would become dizzy and vomit(吐). None of the medicine that the doctors gave Napoleon seemed to help. They were not sure what was the matter. Finally, Napoleon was too weak to leave the house. One night, while he was sleeping, he went into a coma and died.
Many doctors who later reviewed the reports of Napoleon’s illness found that the symptoms(症状) did not show a man who suffered from stomach cancer. It seemed obvious that Napoleon had died from some other cause. In 1961, a Swedish doctor examined some of Napoleon’s hair and found a high level of arsenic, a chemical poison. Was Napoleon murdered? It is doubtful. Arsenic was used in many types of medicine during Napoleon’s time, so he might have taken the arsenic as a cure for his illness. Then, in 1982, Dr. David Jones from England began to look into the mystery and suggested that Napoleon might have breathed in arsenic which was in the air of his house. In the 1700s and 1800s, arsenic was used to make a kind of green paint used on cloth and wallpaper. If the paint was used on a wet wall, the arsenic would go into the air. A person in the room might breathe that air. After studying the wallpaper in the room where Napoleon died, Dr. Jones found high levels of arsenic in the green paint on the walls.
1.Why did Napoleon live on St. Helena?
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A．He owned the island. |
B．He was a prisoner there. |
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C．His family lived there. |
D．He liked the island. |
2.The official report said that Napoleon died of____________.
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A．cancer |
B．a coma |
C． mold |
D．poison |
3.Napoleon suffered from the following symptoms except __________.
A. chills B. fever C dizziness D. bleeding
4.According to Dr. Jones, how did the arsenic probably get into Napoleon’s body?
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A．He drank it.. |
B．He touched it. |
C．He breathed it in. |
D．He ate it |
5.The passage says that .
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A．a British doctor thinks he has found the cause of Napoleon’s death |
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B．many doctors have tried to guess the cause of Napoleon's death |
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C．Napoleon could have died from poison |
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D．all of the above |
There is a brown female(母的) Canadian duck that weighs only four hundred fifty grams. The duck had flown to the southern state of Florida for the winter．A hunter shot it on January fifteenth and took it to his home in the city of Tallahassee．He put it in the refrigerator(冰箱)．Two days later the man’s wife opened the refrigerator door．The duck lifted its head and looked at her．It was alive!
The family took the duck to a doctor who treats animals．The doctor gave the duck to the Goose Creek Animal Sanctuary(动物保护区)．Animal sanctuaries provide homes for animals and teach people about their care．
The doctor said it was easy to understand why people thought the duck was dead. He said ducks generally do not move a 1ot，especially after being shot．And he said its low body temperature helped it survive in the refrigerator．
That was enough to make the duck famous around the world．The Tallahassee newspaper published the story that was re-printed in many different countries．But that was not the end of the story．
Workers at the wildlife sanctuary named the duck Perky．And they got the doctor to give an operation to repair the duck’s damaged wing．During the operation，Perky stopped breathing--not just once but two times．The doctor tried to save Perky by giving her oxygen．But he finally said the duck had died．A few seconds later, however, Perky began to move．Reports say the people in the operating room were so happy that they cried.
Workers at the wildlife sanctuary say Perky will not have any more operations. It seems the drugs that were used had side-effects on her．Perky is expected to live at the sanctuary．And a local company has begun to sell T-shirts showing a picture of the lucky duck. Money from the sale of the shirts will help pay for Perky’s care．
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
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A．Animal sanctuaries are homes specially for wounded animals． |
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B．The hunter shot the duck in the wing． |
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C．Ducks do not move at all for the whole winter. |
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D．The hunter’s wife intended to free the duck in the refrigerator． |
2.The underlined Word “That” in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that______.
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A．the duck survived the shot and the cold in the refrigerator |
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B．the hunter had saved the duck by freezing it |
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C．the hunter shot the duck from Canada |
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D．the Tallahassee newspaper published the story |
3.The duck in the story______．
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A．was big and strong |
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B．flew to Florida for food |
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C．stayed in the refrigerator to keep its body temperature low |
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D．was considered dead before being put in the refrigerator |
4.What is the best title for the passage?
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A．Save the Duck |
B．The Lucky Duck |
C．Stop Killing Ducks |
D．The Poor Duck |
5.It can be inferred from the passage that_______．
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A．the local company will get large profits by selling the T-shirts |
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B．it was illegal for me hunter to shoot the duck |
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C．the duck is likely to be well cared for in the sanctuary |
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D．Perky likes Florida better than Canada |
