You should exercise more, and you see you’re already out of ________ breath after completing such _______ small task.
A．a; the B．the; a C．/; a D．/; the
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil (锡纸), Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have discovered a recording of the human voice which is nearly two ___1.___earlier than Edison's invention of the phonograph.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning (轻声歌唱) the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" was discovered earlier this month in an ___2.___ in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds ___3.___, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable---converted from squiggles (潦草的字迹) on paper to sound---by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
"This is a ___4.___find, the earliest known recording of sound," said Samuel Brylawski, the former head of the recorded-sound division of the Library of Congress, who is not ___5.___with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. The audio discovery could give new ___6.___ to the phonautograph, and its inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter who went to his grave ___7.___that credit for his breakthroughs had been ___8.___bestowed on Edison.
The recordings made by Scott were not intended for listening; the idea of audio ___9.__ had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be___10.___.
翻译句子（共 6小题；每小题 3 分，满分18分）
福建与台湾隔台湾海峡（the Taiwan Strait）相望。（face, across）
从面积方面来说，中国是第三大国家。（term词组）
这个公司占地50平方公里。（cover）
如果你继续偷东西，最终会被投入监狱。(end)
那个蓝色眼睛的男孩是我弟弟。（whose）
虽然很伤心，她设法抑制住了泪水。（hold词组）
单词拼写（共 12小题；每小题 1 分，满分12分）
1.His father is an a______ so he is always busy with designing buildings.
2.We s_____, although others died in the disaster.
3.There are many _____(古代的) buildings in Rome.
4.It’s ______(绝对的) impossible for them to finish the task in just one day’s time.
5.She is c_______ about her son’s future.
6.The room _____(测量) five meters across.
7.You’d better stop a_____ with Bill because he will never change his mind.
8.Teaching him Greek was a painful _____(过程).
9.The street was ____(拥挤的) with people and the traffic was held up.
10.The flat can a_____ a family of five.
11.Now, there is no library in our school, but it will be under _____ (建设) in a month.
12.S_____ in the center of the city, the shopping mall is full of people even on weekdays.
[1] Every year, whenever the Spring Festival arrives, a lot of Chinese people cannot wait to go home. They queue for long hours in front of the ticket offices in railway stations, or do whatever they can in order to get a ticket. They tolerate the long journey on the train only to want to ____________ with their near and dear ones.
[2] According to the Beijing Youth Daily, most Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival not only because they want to follow tradition, there are also some practical reasons to explain Chinese people's fever for the holiday. Compared with one's workplace, home provides a more humane environment for one to relax oneself.
[3] Society may do with or without you, but at home, you become unique and indispensable. You may be the father or mother, daughter or son, grandfather or grandmother in the family and the family will be incomplete if anyone is absent, because every member in the family is bound together, and everyone in the family is pleased with the feeling that he or she is unique and irreplaceable.
[4] In addition, family provides an ideal environment for one to fully relax oneself. At home, one can take one's time to do whatever he or she wants, and one can spend money whenever one likes. In society, however, one needs to do everything fast and with high efficiency, because society always requires efficiency and maximum profits. Such company principles make people merely a tool in modern society.
[5] Chinese people's strong desire for the Spring Festival shows that they feel oppressed and have a sense of predicament (困境) of existence in modern society. The Spring Festival provides a chance for them to escape from such anxiety and treasure the long-lost tradition of community spirit. With the Spring Festival, people can find back the warm, family atmosphere often seen in days gone by.
1.What's the passage mainly talking about? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2.Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words. )
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3.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
You may not be a necessary part in society, but in your family, you are very important and no one else can take the place of you.
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4.Do you think home is important for Chinese to celebrate the Spring Festival? Why or why not? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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5.Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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Imagine your body is like the house you live in．Every day, your family creates rubbish．The rubbish builds up until it is put out for the weekly garbage collection．
Now, say you put three bags of garbage out, but because one of the collectors was away sick, only two bags are collected．You take the leftover bag inside to be put out again next week．The following week you put on another three bags, plus the leftover bag from last week．But again, only two bags are collected．Imagine this cycle is repeated over the following weeks．
This is a simple description of what happens to your body when your kidneys （肾脏）don't work efficiently．Your body is not thoroughly emptied of waste products．Other areas of the body such as blood pressure and red blood cell production are affected and the insidious process that may lead to kidney failure begins．
It's not uncommon for people to lose up to 90% of their kidney function before developing any symptoms．There may be no warning signs. This makes early detection （诊查）difficult．
Kidney's main job is to remove toxins（毒素） and unwanted water from our blood．Every day our kidneys clean an average of 200 litres of blood．Kidney failure may be a gradual and silent process, going unnoticed because there is no obvious pain．
Research shows that more than 35% of the patients requiring dialysis（透析）do not see a kidney specialist before they have to do so．Some risk factors for kidney disease such as age and genetic make-up are out of our control; however, some changes in lifestyle may help prevent kidney damage．Two major risk factors for kidney disease, diabetes （糖尿病）and high blood pressure, have been on the rise over the last few decades．Both conditions are chiefly affected by being overweight and not getting enough exercises, which are the potential (潜在的) risk factors for the kidney disease．
1.The author gives the example of the house we live in to indicate that ______．
A．it doesn't matter much if the waste in our body is not emptied in time
B．our body will not produce any waste if our kidneys work efficiently
C．it's important for our body to empty the waste in time every day
D．it's safe and harmless for our body to keep some waste
2.The underlined word “insidious” in Paragraph 3 means .
A．smooth and safe B．apparent and fast
C．gradual and unnoticed D．long and painful
3.We can infer that when we find some symptoms related to our kidneys, .
A．the kidney failure begins
B．the kidneys can still work properly
C．we have lost about 10% of kidney function
D．the kidneys may have been seriously damaged
4.How many risk factors of kidney disease are mentioned in the passage?
A．Six. B．Five. C．Four. D．Two.
5.Which of the following helps prevent kidney damage most effectively?
A．Go to see a kidney specialist shortly before dialysis starts.
B．Take enough exercise and make early detection of kidney disease.
C．Try to keep low blood pressure and a stable lifestyle.
D．Go to hospital whenever you find any warning signs.
