When a couple falls into a divorce or separation, their child often has to make a big in his or her life.
A．promise B．breakthrough C．target D．adjustment.
2011年10月13日下午5点30分，在广东佛山一五金城内，2岁女童小悦悦在过马路时不慎被一辆面包车撞倒并两度碾压，随后肇事车辆逃逸，随后开来的另一辆车辆直接从已经被碾压过的女童身上再次开了过去，七分钟内在女童身边经过的十几个路人，都对此冷眼漠视，只有最后一名拾荒阿姨上前施以援手。2011年10月21日，小悦悦经医院全力抢救无效，于0时32分离世。由此引发网友广泛热议。请根据下面提示，以“Say no to indifference and awaken true love”为题写一短文，简述这一事件及事后人们对此的不同反应，并谈谈你自己的看法。
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短文必须包括以下要点：
人们的不同反应：
1）路过者之所以没有给予帮助，主要是因为冷漠；
2) 中国经济的快速发展给公共道德带来了负面影响；
3）现实生活中的确发生过因为救人而惹上麻烦的事，这使许多人在想要帮助别人之前有了顾虑；
4）还有人建议要立法，要大力表扬见义勇为者；
你自己的观点（至少两点）。
注意：
1. 参照以上文字及下面文章开头所给提示，做必要的发挥想象。
2. 不要逐字翻译，只需正确表达出相关内容。
3. 词数150左右，开头已写好，不计入总词数。
4. 参考词汇： 1) 悲剧tragedy
5. 2）冷漠indifference (n.) indifferent (adj.)
6. 3) 良心conscience
7. 4) 道德 morality (n.), moral(adj.)
8. 5）见义勇为者Samaritan
Say no to indifference and awaken true love
On Oct. 13, two-year-old Yue Yue was knocked down by a van before being run over by a truck near a market in Foshan, Guangdong province, while 18 people ignored her severely injured body as she lay bleeding on the ground after the accident. The girl eventually received help from an elderly refuse collector but died later from injuries to the head.
In response to the tragedy, different people have different attitudes.
单词拼写（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）
1.The book is i__________ for children aged 5-7.
2.We congratulated him on his being a__________ into Peking University.
3.As she had no child of her own, she had to a ____________one .
4.You can’t a__________ English poetry unless you understand its rhythm (韵律).
5.Animals have died as a c___________ of coming into contact with this chemical.
6.You’ll have to get p__________ from your parents if you want to come.
7.Hollywood also faces competition from ________(非法) copied movies.
8.Judy lay in the armchair, _________(专注) in her magazine.
9.The government’s ___________ (农业) policy is popular with farmers in the country.
10.After several _______(十年), the manager returned and found everything had changed.
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。
Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to offend them because they have a talent for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. ‘It’s unfair,’ they say, ‘that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies are making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods? After all, it’s the consumer who pays…’
The poor old consumer! He’d have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is precisely because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to inform. A great deal of the knowledge we have about household goods comes largely from the advertisements we read. Advertisements introduce us to new products or remind us of the existence of ones we already know about. Supposing you wanted to buy a washing machine, it is more than likely you would obtain details regarding performance, price, etc., from an advertisement.
Lots of people pretend that they never read advertisements, but this claim may be seriously doubted. It is hardly possible not to read advertisements these days. And what fun they often are, too! Just think what a railway station or a newspaper would be like without advertisements. Would you enjoy gazing at a blank wall or reading railway rules while waiting for a train? Would you like to read only closely printed columns of news in your daily paper? A cheerful, witty advertisement makes such a difference to a dull wall or a newspaper full of disasters.
We must not forget, either, that advertising makes a positive contribution to our pockets. Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could not survive without this source of revenue(收益). The fact that we pay so little for our daily paper, or can enjoy so many broadcast programmes is due entirely to the money spent by advertisers. Just think what a newspaper would cost if we had to pay its full price!
Another thing we mustn’t forget is the ‘small ads.’ which are in virtually every newspaper and magazine. What a greatly useful service they perform for the community! Just about anything can be accomplished through these columns. For instance, you can find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death in what used to be called the ‘hatch, match and dispatch’ column but by far the most fascinating section is the personal or ‘agony’ column（读者来信专栏）. No other item in a newspaper provides such entertaining reading or offers such a deep insight into human nature. It’s the best advertisement for advertising there is!
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l having a talent for self-promotion l 2 so much money l making the price of goods 3 |
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l Consumer goods are not so 4 . l People 5 a great deal of knowledge from ads. l Ads provide us with some 6 to new products or remind us of the old ones. l A cheerful, witty ad makes our life more 7 . |
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l Newspapers, commercial radio and television companies could hardly 8 . l We pay 9 for our daily paper or cannot enjoy so many broadcast programmes. l It will not be so 10 if people want to find a job, buy or sell a house, announce a birth, marriage or death. |
Recently there was a major discovery in the scientific research — the mapping of all DNA in a human gene(基因) is complete. Couple of years ago, this seems an impossible task for scientist to accomplish. All this progress in science leads us to believe that the day, when the human being will be cloned, is not far away. Human cloning has always been a topic of argument, in terms of morality(道德) or religion.
Taking a look at why cloning might be beneficial, among many cases, it is arguable that parents who are known to be at risk of passing a genetic limitation to a child could make use of cloning. If the clone was free of genetic limitations, then the other clone would be as well. The latter could be inserted in the woman and allowed to ripen to term. Moreover, cloning would enable women, who can’t get pregnant, to have children of their own.
Cloning humans would also mean that organs could be cloned, so it would be a source of perfect transfer organs. This surely would be greatly beneficial to millions of unfortunate people around the world that are expected to lose their lives due to failure of single (or more) organ(s). It is also arguable that a ban on cloning may be unlawful and would rob people of the right to reproduce and limit the freedom of scientists.
Arguments against cloning are also on a perfectly practical side. Primarily, I believe that cloning would step in the normal “cycle” of life. There would be a large number of same genes, which reduce the chances of improvement, and, in turn, development — the fundamental reason how living things naturally adapt to the ever-changing environment. Life processes failing to do so might result in untimely disappearance. Furthermore, cloning would make the uniqueness that each one of us possesses disappear, thus leading to creation of genetically engineered groups of people for specific purposes, and chances are that those individuals would be regarded as “objects” rather than people in the society.
Scientists haven’t 100% guaranteed that the first cloned humans will be normal. Thus, this could result in introduction of additional limitations in the human “gene-pool”.
Regarding such arguable topics in “black or white” approach seems very innocent to me personally. We should rather try to look at all “shades” of it. I believe that cloning is only legal if its purpose is for cloning organs; not humans. Then we could regard this as for “saving life” instead of “creating life”. I believe cloning humans is morally and socially unacceptable.
1. Which of the following is true according to the passage？
A. Genetic limitation will be beneficial for some women
B. A large number of genes will prevent us from developing
C. Prohibition(禁止) of cloning might limit the freedom of scientists
D. First cloned humans might be normal according to scientists
2.What’s the author’s opinion on cloning?
A. Cloning should be entirely banned
B. Cloning should be used in creating life
C. Cloning will take away the right to reproduce
D. Cloning is acceptable if it is used for cloning organs
3.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage
Why does a large education nation like China have so few world renowned scientists as the US? Educationists from China and the US try to find out the answer to questions like this at a forum on the basic education strategy.
The forum, held recently, was jointly organized by the Education Development Research Center of the Ministry of Education in China and the Postgraduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in the US. It aims to find out similarities and differences that exist between two countries in their educational system.
While some educationists in China keep a doubtful eye to the country’s educational system in recent years. Their American counterparts give a positive answer to the basic education in China, saying that it is still one of the best in the world.
An American educationist told reporters that the basic education in the US was criticized in recent years due to its political tendency. On the contrary, Chinese government’s stress on basic education and qualified teachers has set a good example.
At primary and middle school, pupils in China did better in math and science lessons than the US pupils. However, few grow to be world “masters”. Why? Educationists attributed this to China’s stress on examination rather than students’ interest.
Deputy Director of the postgraduate school of Pennsylvania University said American teachers encouraged students to focus on their strong points. In China, students are driven to study to pass the entrance examination test and they do not pay much attention to their own interest.
At the forum, director of the Education Development Research Center Mr. Zhang said in the future, the research center would make its middle and long-term basic education strategy by taking some references from other countries including the US.
He also revealed that for a long time in the future, China would make a breakthrough in setting the policy for quality education.
1.This passage is mainly about _________.
A. quality education development in the future
B. why China’s education cultivates(培养) few world masters
C. China’s good basic education
D. genius education at the primary stage
2.The underlined word “renowned” in the first paragraph probably means ________
A. famous B. active C. qualified D. experienced
3.Few pupils in China who did better in math and science lessons than the US pupils grow to be
world “masters”, because _________
A. The US government spends more money on basic education
B. American pupils are cleverer than Chinese pupils
C. basic education in China is not as successful as that of the US
D. Chinese people pay less attention to students’ interest
4. China’s educational system will _______ in the future.
A. help students to study even harder to pass the examination
B. apply more attention to quality education referring to systems of other countries
C. allow students to pay more attention to their own interest without their test results
D. copy the educational system in the US
