From where I stand， the key to the test is to practise English every day.
A.passing； speaking B.passing； to speak
C.pass； speaking D.pass； to speak
The small victories in the fight against poverty and hunger have helped many people who are in trouble allowing them to maintain dignity.
A.before B.after C.for D.while
Directions (25’): Write an English composition according to the information given below in Chinese.
我校近期正在进行一项关于突发事件发生时如何自救的安全教育和征文比赛。其主题为：在学校发生火灾或地震时，我们应该如何保护自己？请按下面的要求写一篇英语短文。
只选其中一种突发灾害进行阐述；
要求至少写出两条措施。
注意：词数不少于120，开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Life is not easy. As a student, we should learn how to protect ourselves in the school.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scientists believe that conditions on Mars around 3.8 billion years ago were very similar to those of the early earth, when primitive organisms were spreading through our oceans. At that time, Mars would have been much warmer and wetter than it is today, with an atmosphere composed mainly of carbon dioxide, just like that of the earth at the time. Under these conditions, it is highly probable that life may have arisen on Mars as well.
But, even if life did not arise naturally on Mars, it does not mean that it could not have existed there. According to Professor Paul Davies of the University of Adelaide, Australia, life forms could have been transferred between the earth and Mars in wreckage (broke pieces) created by the impact of comet(彗星) and small planets on the surface of the two planets.
Even today, about 500 tons of material from Mars lands on earth every year. It is mainly in the form of the dust but occasionally a larger chunk(厚片，大块) strikes the earth. In 1911, a piece of Martian rock crashed in Egypt, killing a dog. According to Professor Davies, it is in these chunks of rock, which were much larger and more frequent in the past that life forms could have been transported from planet to planet.
“But how could these life forms have survived their journey through space?” says Paul Davies, “The difficulty in believing this theory is that a bacterium on its own in space has to struggle itself not only against cold but also against deadly cosmic (宇宙的) radiation. But wrapped in a rock the situation is different. A rock ten meters across would shield life inside it from a lot of radiation and the temperature might only be minus 10 or 20 degrees, the sort of thing we have on earth.”
1. Where do some scientists suppose life probably come from? (2’) (No more than 6 words)
2.What does Professor Paul Davies believe? (2’) (No more than 6 words)
3. Why could life survive when transferred from one planet to another? (3’) (No more than 12 words)
4. List at least two differences about Mars between the past and now. (3’) (No more than 16 words)
随着新课堂改革的进一步深入，关于“课堂中到底是以教师为中心还是以学生为中心”仍然是讨论的一个热点，请你以自己的实际情况为依据，按照下列提示写一篇文章。
提示：1. 表明观点：你更喜欢哪种课堂模式；
2. 说明理由；
3. 总结全文。
参考词汇：以教师为中心 teacher-centered
以学生为中心 student-centered
注意：1. 词数不少于120；
2. 开头已写好，不计入总词数。
Although in the past, the majority of classes were teacher-centered…
From bankers to factory staff, employees in the west face the bleak prospect of losing their jobs as a global recession starts to bite. For colleagues in the East the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut.
Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian firms try harder to keep jobs in difficult times, which will stop unemployment and may help keep Asian economies afloat at a time of slowing exports.
The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for firms to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, leaving some experts predicting Western shift to Eastern flexibility.
“In the Confucian attitude, the right thing to do is to share the burden. There is the sense of collective responsibility whereas in the west, it’s more about the individual survival,” said Michael Benotlel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University.
Steven Pang, Asian Regional director for Aquent, a headhunting firm, said in many East Asian companies there was an responsibility “ to take care of the members of the family and go through the pain together” even if that meant causing losses.
Us firms from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousands. But at the Asian units of Western multinationals, jobs cuts will probably be less severe.
Japan’s jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong Kong’s was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last month from below 5 percent in January.
Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East
and West, the gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best practices of rivals from abroad.
1.According to the passage, what does “to share the burden” mean?
( less than 6 words)
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2. Why would firms in the west lay off workers when facing a bleak prospect?
( no more than 5 words)
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3.Why is it easier for the East Asian firms to recover quickly from the economic downturn? (no more than 12 words)
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4.What’s the passage talking about? (no more than 15 words)
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