单词拼写(共10小题，分值为1分，共10分). 请根据句子逻辑, 从模块二课本所学的词汇中选用恰当的单词并且使用其正确的形式填空。
1. According to the new standard, p_________ health and mental health are equally important.
2. To enter a university, all Chinese students should take part in the college e_____________ examinations which take place in June every year.
3. The number of students who leave school because of financial difficulty has d___________ with the help of the government and society.
4. This room used to be very dirty and old. But after we have designed it again and d__________ it, it now looks like a new one.
5.I would a_____________ it if you could give me an early reply.
6. Such romantic story only happens in films. In r_________, it will never happen.
7. When I came into the room, she p____________ to be asleep. As soon as I stepped out of the room, she got up again.
8. There are too many steps to operate this machine and they are very confusing (容易混淆的). You had better s__________ the steps so that they can be easily understood.
9. When kids step into this toy shop, it is not easy to take them out because there are too many things that are a____________ to them.
10. Whoever breaks the window should take the r___________________ and should pay for it.
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首先阅读下列博客信息：
A．My name’s Marta and I’ m from Mexico City, but I moved to Los Angeles, California, five years ago, now I am living in an apartment at No．3178 SE Timmer Broadway．I am 28, single．I am a customer service representative for a large financial company．I am an outgoing person．I love to laugh and have fun! I enjoy cooking, dancing and listening to music．I don’t like watching or playing sports．You should be an outgoing, considerate lady with a good sense of humor, to share the apartment．Are you the one? Email and let’s have further talk.
B. My name’s Mark, and I’m from Hollywood, California．I’m a fitness instructor in Los Angeles．I am a friendly and easy-going person; I love playing sports-especially football and working out at the gym．I also play the guitar．My best friend David, who often has sports with me, went to Mexico last month．To avoid loneliness, I’d like very much to own a new friend who would share the fun of sports with me．I am longing.
C. My name’s Park Jun Seo, but you can call me Jun．I moved from Seoul Korea to Los Angeles two years ago．I am a graphic designer and I am looking for my younger brother, Lean Ban Seo, who might be in this city．As the story is too long, I just hope to find him and have my family reunited．He is lame at the right leg, 19 years old, 1.79 meters tall, with very big eyes and fair curly hair．With his picture of two years ago enclosed, I would be very appreciated if you have any information about that. Telephone me at 818-5789.
D. My name is Don and I am a programmer at a computer company．I have designed several pieces of software that can help students learn better, especially suitable for primary students who have some language disability to learn words and help them pronounce more correctly．If you think you need one, please fax to 857-4693. You can purchase by post.
E. My name is Mauricio, and I’m a computer programmer working in the Los Angeles area．I am kind of shy, but maybe you can help me to be more outgoing．I like cooking, playing computer games, and chatting with friends online．If you think you are the proper one to be my E-pal, let’s chat!
F. My name’s Judy and I’m from Quebec, Canada．I am a sales woman in one of the women underwear stores in Montreal．I’d like to have more visitors to my shop．And you can bargain for a reduction of 10% to 30%, if you purchase in package．Let’s be friends.
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1.I am a professional sportsman and work in the same city．I am so glad that I will have a good friend who can be the opponent to improve my techniques．E-mail me at bitterflower@yahoo.com
2.As a shop owner, I might drop in when I go downtown．But may I know your exact address? When is it convenient for a visit? Thank you!
3.God bless you! I’m a journalist and happened to read your brief story．A neighbor of mine looks exactly the same as the man in the picture you uploaded．This might be a chance in a million．Telephone me at 818-5690.
4.As a new comer and a freshman, I am looking for a room as close to my university as possible．I would like to have some friends, too．I think your place might be the right choice for me．But can I know how much the rent is?
5.I am a salesman from Paris．My first difficulty working in this city is language．I would appreciate it if you could help me learn English through the keyboard.
Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.
In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out.
Though the belief in the merit of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War Ⅱ. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea; clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far?
Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist(免疫学家)，encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground.
1.The kings of France and England in the 16th century closed bath houses because .
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A．they lived healthily in a dirty environment |
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B．they thought bath houses were to dirty to stay in |
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C．they believed disease could be spread in public baths |
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D．they considered bathing as the cause of skin disease |
2.Which of the following best describes Henry IV’s attitude to bathing?________.
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A．Afraid |
B．Curious |
C．Approving |
D．Uninterested |
3.The underlined sentence in paragraph one is closest in meaning to __________.
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A．Attitudes to dirt are different in different times |
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B．Nothing is fixed for the attitudes to dirt |
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C．Attitudes to dirt never change |
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D．There isn’t anything fixed for attitudes to dirt |
4. How does the passage mainly develop?____________.
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A．By providing examples |
B．By making comparisons |
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C．By following the order of time |
D．By following the order of importance |
5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?___________.
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A．To stress the role of dirt |
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B．To introduce the history of dirt |
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C．To call attention to the danger of dirt |
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D．To present the change of views on dirt |
The Stop Global Warming calculator shows you how much carbon dioxide you
can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much money you can save by making some small changes in your daily life. It’s our hope that the calculator will promote action, awareness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help stop global warming.
There are many simple things you can do in your daily life—what you eat, what you drive, how you build your home—that can have an effect on your immediate surroundings, and on places as far away as Antarctica. Here is a list of things that you can do to make a difference.
Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Save 300lbs (pounds) of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.
Use Recycled Paper
Make sure your printer paper is 100% post consumer recycled paper. Save 5lbs of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
Take Shorter Showers
Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.
Buy Products Locally
Buy locally and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your home.
Carpool When You Can
Own a big vehicle？Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.
Don’t Idle in Your Car
Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions. Except when in traffic, turn your engine off in you must wait for more than 30 seconds.
Buy Organic food
The chemicals used in modern agriculture pollute the water supply, and require energy to produce.
Turn Off Your Computer
Shut off your computer when not in use, and save 200 lbs of carbon dioxide. Conserve energy by using your computer’s “sleep mode” instead of a screensaver.
With a Stop Global Warming calculator which costs you only $50 in hand, you will find what you do does count.
1. The Stop Global Warming calculator can serve the following purposes EXCEPT __________.
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A．introducing the ways of saving carbon dioxide |
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B．Telling how to save money in your daily life |
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C．promoting action, awareness and empowerment and helping stop global warming |
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D．introducing how global warming is formed |
2. How many tips are related to cars?__________.
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A．1 |
B．2 |
C．3 |
D．4 |
3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the list of tips? ___________.
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A．Using a screensaver instead of the computer’s “sleep mode” |
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B．Buying products in the neighborhood |
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C．Using recycled printer paper |
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D．Replacing frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs |
4.What does the underlined word “carpooling” mean according to the passage?____.
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A．Changing your big vehicle into a small one with your friends and co-workers to save fuel |
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B．Going to the pool with your friends and co-workers by car |
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C．Trying to share a big vehicle with your friends to save fuel |
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D．Washing the car in a pool by yourself instead of having it washed by your |
friends and co-workers
5. What is the purpose of the author writing this passage?___________.
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A．Giving people tips on how to save money in life |
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B．Telling people how to be environment-friendly |
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C．Promoting the product “Stop Global Warming calculator” |
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D．Telling people how to prevent carbon dioxide from being released |
He lived his whole life as a poor man. His art and talent were recognized by almost no one. He suffered from a mental（精神的）illness that led him to cut off part of his left ear in 1888 and to shoot himself two years later. But after his death, he achieved world fame. Today, Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh is recognized as one of
the leading artists of all time.
Now, 150 years after his birth on March 30, 1853, Zundert, the town of his birth, has made 2003 “The van Gogh Year”in his honor. And the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, home to the biggest collection of his masterpieces, is marking the anniversary（周年纪念）with exhibitions throughout the year. The museum draws around 1.3 million visitors every year. Some people enjoy the art and then learn about his life. Others are first interested in his life, which then helps them understand his art.
Van Gogh was the son of a pastor（牧师）. He left school when he was just 15. By the age of 27, he had already tried many jobs including an art gallery（画廊）salesman and a French teacher. Finally in 1880, he decided to begin his studies in art.
Van Gogh is famed for his ability to put his own emotions into his paintings and show his feelings about a scene. His style is marked by short, broad brush strokes（笔画）.“Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more freely, in order to express myself more forcibly,” he wrote in a letter to his brother in 1888.
Van Gogh sold only one painting during his short life. He relied heavily on the support from his brother, an art dealer who lived in Paris. But now his works are sold for millions of dollars. His portrait of Dr. Gacher sold for $89.5 million in 1990. It is the highest price ever paid for a painting. “I think his paintings are powerful and the brilliant colors in them are attractive to people,” said a Van Gogh’s fan.
1.All through his life, Van Gogh __________.
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A．depended on his brother |
B．worked hard on art studies |
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C．was not recognized by people |
D．expressed himself in paintings |
2. Van Gogh killed himself because of ___________.
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A．the poor life |
B．his illness |
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C．his pain from left ear |
D．the objections from the artists of his time |
3. One of the characteristics of Van Gogh’s paintings is ______________.
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A．the likeness between his paintings and the reality |
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B．the short time for him to complete a painting |
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C．the various styles mixed together |
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D．the special strokes he made |
4. The selling of his paintings is considered to be the most successful because ________.
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A．more and more people like his paintings |
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B．people can understand him through his paintings |
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C．1.3 million people visit his painting museum every year |
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D．Zundert has made 2003 “The Van Gogh Year” in his honor |
5. We can infer from the passage that _______.
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A．his powerful art came from his poor life |
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B．his fellow townsmen regret treating him unfairly |
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C．all his paintings were drawn in the last 10 years of his life |
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D．most of his paintings are kept in the museum of his hometown |
Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers tried to conquer Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally in 1921, the British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland, in the north, is part of the United Kingdom. The republic of Ireland, in the south, is an independent country.
In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of hunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work, forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.
For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.
The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly. Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”. Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different areas have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.
1.What does the author tell us in paragraph 1? _____________.
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A．how the Irish fought against the English |
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B．how Ireland gained independence |
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C．how English rulers tried to conquer Ireland |
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D．how two “Irelands” came into being |
2.We learn from the text that in Ireland________.
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A．food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population |
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B．people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside |
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C．it is harder to make a living as a farmer than as a factory worker |
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D．different kinds of old Irish songs are all sung with instruments |
3.The last paragraph is mainly about_________.
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A．the Irish character |
B．Irish culture |
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C．Irish musical instruments |
D．a famous Irish writer |
4.According to the author, all the following words can be used to describe the Irish EXCEPT ___________.
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A．brave |
B．kind |
C．pleasant |
D．hard-working |
5.What can be the best title for the text?________
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A．Life in Ireland |
B．A Very difficult history |
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C．Ireland, past and present |
D．The independence of Ireland |
