Statistics show that shanghai subway lines will reach 350 kms by the end of this year, making the city No. 3 in the world subway length.
A．according to B．in terms of C．on account of D．in view of
I admit I made a lot of mistakes in the work, and I will responsibility for them.
A．assume B．decline C．accept D．secure
短文写作 (满分25分)
英语中“please”、“thank you”、“sorry”等礼貌用语具有增进友谊、改善关系、化解矛盾等神奇的力量，因而被称为“magic words”。请以“Magic Power of Polite Words”为题写一篇100词左右的英语作文。体裁不限（叙述文、评论文、说论文……）
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完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
1.____________________ (虽然很恼怒), the headmaster listened to us with great patience. (as)
2.When the American war of Independence ____________________ (使得不可能) for England to send prisoners to North America, Australia was chosen as a new place where prisoners and criminals were sent. (make)
3.In order to apply for the 2008 Olympic Games, they did _______________________________
(他们所能做的) to show that Beijing is suitable to host the world’s largest athletic event over the past 2 decades. (what)
4.____________________ (被分离) from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. (separate)
5.I’m trying to catch up with my classmates. If only I ____________________ (没有落后) them! (fall)
6.With each classroom ____________________ (装上) a computer, the students have easy access to whatever information they are in want of. (equip)
7.There are many kinds of birds on the island, and over 140 species of snakes, _______________ (其中许多) are extremely dangerous. (many)
8.In later years, the question arose who was the first ___________________ (登上顶峰) of Mount Qomolangma. (reach)
9.The town has changed beyond recognition; now it is ____________________ (五倍大) what it was 20 years ago. (size)
10.As is reported in the newspaper, dozens of people were arrested but none of them ___________ (被指控) the robbery. (charge)
Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noises with our mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.
Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animals. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing. Birds can fly thousands of miles by observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called “body language”. Bristling (直立的) fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among many animals. Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.
Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skill? Biologists can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.
1.According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is .
A. our ability to use language B. the miracle of technology
C. our ability to make noises with mouth D. the amazing power of nature
2.What feature of “body language” mentioned in the passage is common to both humans and animals?
A. Lifting heads when sad. B. Keeping long faces when angry.
C. Bowing heads when willing to obey. D. Bristling hair when ready to attack.
3.What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
A. Body language is unique to humans.
B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.
C. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.
D. Humans have other powers of communication.
4.This passage is mainly about .
A. the development of body language
B. the special role humans play in nature
C. the difference between humans and animals in language use
D. the power to convey information to others
Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.
There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
1.The new products become more and more time-saving because .
A. time is limited B. our love of speed seems never-ending
C. the prices are increasingly high D. the manufacturers boast a lot
2.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Simple life in the past. B. Imaginary life.
C. Times of inventions. D. Time for constant activity.
3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?
A. Objective. B. Critical. C. Optimistic. D. Negative.
4.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Machinery and human beings. B. The present and past times.
C. Imaginations and inventions. D. Modern technology and its influence.
