With a travelling speed of up to 350 kilometres per hour, the railway to be built between Beijing and Shanghai _______ the journey time from 12 hours to 5 hours．
A．cuts B．will cut C．is cutting D．has cut
―Karen, can I talk to you for a minute?
―Sure, ________?
A．how come B．what’s up C．how’s that D．what fo
从电视上看到甲型H1N1流感(A/H1N1 flu)仍然在墨西哥流行，你为你正在墨西哥上学的笔友Anderson的健康与安全担心。请你给他写一封信询问他的情况，并给他提出防护建议。
要点：
一、询问
1、 他的健康状况；
2、 他们学校有无甲型H1N1流感病例(A/H1N1 flu cases)；
3、 他们是否对这一大面积流行的疾病感到恐惧。
二、建议
1、尽量待在家里，少去人多的地方；
2、勤洗手、讲卫生；
3、多开窗，保持空气新鲜；
4、多吃水果、蔬菜。
注意：1、词数：100左右；
2、首尾已给出，不记入总词数。
Dear Anderson ,
From TV I know there are still many A/H1N1 flu cases reported recently in Mexico and many schools are closed as a result. I’m so worried about you.___________________________
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Yours，
Li Hua
该自我介绍中共有十处错误,每句中最多有两处,错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ＾), 并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ ＼）划掉。
修改： 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改十处, 多者(从第11处起) 不计分。
I’m eighteen years old and I live in small village in the Peak District , not far from Nottingham. I grow up in this village, so I know everyone here. That’s the problem---- the problem is there’s nothing to do , and nobody of my age to do it with ! At the moments I travel into Nottingham every day to the shop as I work. There’s a bus at 7:30 in the morning or the last bus back in the evening is at 5:30 . From September, therefore, I’m going to stay in Nottingham by my aunt and uncle when my cousin joins in the Navy . I can use his room . I’m really looking forward to living in Nottingham.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多途选项。
November 30th, 2008
A few weeks ago, we talked about the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL. A listener in Cambodia named Thida asks if American colleges and universities also accept the IELTS exam. IELTS is the International English Language Testing System. It was developed by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.
Cambridge University
Cambridge ESOL says the test measures true-to-life ability to municate in English for education, immigration or employment. The IELTS tests listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. It uses a mixture of accents and spellings, including British English and American English.
The test is used by government agencies, schools and professional organizations in one hundred twenty countries. ___1.___ Many American schools that accept the IELTS can be found on the Web at ielts.org.
___2.__. But the graduate school at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for example, says it prefers the IELTS.
The listening and speaking parts are the same for everyone who takes the IELTS. But people have a choice of reading and writing tests--- either academic or general training. The listening test takes thirty minutes. ____3._____ .
The reading test takes sixty minutes. Students answer forty questions based on three written passages.
The writing test also takes sixty minutes. Students have to write two essays. One essay has to be at least one hundred fifty words long and the other at least two hundred fifty words. ____4._____; the longer one has to support an argument.
____5.______.The score is based on a recorded talk between the student and a test examiner.
A. IELTS is a prehensive test of your English proficiency.
B. And, yes, that includes the United States.
C. The shorter one is a description of something.
D. Some schools accept both the TOEFL and the IELTS.
E. These language skills are increasingly demanded by international employers,
education institutions and professional associations.
F. There are forty questions based on a recording.
G. The speaking test takes less than fifteen minutes
The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.
An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill（钻孔） deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0ºC. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.
The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will e from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.
Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
1.The project is meant to ______.
A．increase the world’s food output in the future
B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes
C．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds
D．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?
A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.
B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.
C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever.
D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.
3.We can infer from the text that _______.
A．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 20 years before.
B．The storage center will greatly promote world agriculture
C．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.
D．There haven’t been any seed storage centres in the world before.
4.What is probably the best title of the passage?
A．The Best Place to Store Seeds
B．Noah’s Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan
C．Concerns of World Food Supply
D．A New Way to Feed the World
