-- Peter, set down the result of the experiment, ______?
-- Oh, yes, but I need to find my pen first.
A．will you B．shall you C．don't you D．do you
For quite ______ students, their teacher's advice is more important than ______ of their parents.
A．few; one B．a few; that C．few; some D．a few; those
上海世博会引起了世界的关注，请根据以下信息对上海世博会用英语做简单介绍：
1．上海世博会于5月1日至10月31日在上海举行；
2．主题：城市让生活更美好；
3．宗旨：促进城市多元化、经济繁荣、科技创新；
4．参展者：189个国家和57个国际组织，展示各国在工业、农业、科学、技术、文化艺术方面所取得的成就，预计约7000万中外观众出席。
注意：不要逐字翻译介绍要点，可以适当发挥，词数100—120。
参考词：多元化diversity； 繁荣prosperity; 产品博览会exposition; 创新innovation
阅读下列短文，根据所读内容在短文后的表格中填入恰当的单词。注意：表格的每个空格只填一个单词。
Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment （投资）available in the developing world. Women's education may be unusual territory for economists（经济学家）, but enhancing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics（经济因素）, with its emphasis on incentives, provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived（剥夺）of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest（投资）in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school - the prophecy （预言) becomes self- fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy.
Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female1. in developing countries
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Educating girls in more2. than any other investment. |
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Families |
From low-income families |
From educated mothers’ families |
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Girls are of less3. than boys. |
Development should be for all4. . |
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There is6. invests ment in daughters. Girls are made to may at home, 7. housework. |
Girls and boys have8. chances. |
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Educating girls9. to social benefits, conceit advantages and health practices, including faruly planning. |
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Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. |
It is common to have difficulties sleeping during the day. Humans are naturally wired to sleep best at night and be awake during the day. However, modern work schedules require some people to try to accommodate the unnatural schedule of shift（轮班）work — being awake at night and sleeping during the day.
In order to make this adjustment, you need to pay special attention to your sleep environment and your preparation for sleep. If shift work is a necessary part of your work life, here are some suggestions that may help.
Arrange to sleep uninterrupted in a quiet, dark room. This means you may have to turn off or unplug your phone, hang darkening curtains on the windows or wear a sleep eye mask, and train your family and friends to leave you alone while you sleep.
Fit in a nap（小睡）. When your daytime sleep period is too short, taking a short nap of less than 30 minutes just before work or on a break has been shown to improve alertness and enhance performance.
Develop and follow a sleep routine. It's best if you go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day. Try not to vary this too much on weekends. Your body likes routine.
Take extra care to make healthy choices. You may be tempted to reach for unhealthy foods or nicotine to stay awake or alcohol to try to sleep. But ultimately these choices are more harmful than helpful.
If you have tried all these things and are still having problems getting enough quality sleep during the day, talk to your doctor or a sleep specialist. Sometimes medications（药物治疗）may be helpful and safe. In other cases, there may be an underlying sleep disorder that needs to be addressed.
1.The purpose of the text is to .
A．persuade workers to have a god sleep.
B．advise night workers to keep healthy
C．encourage workers to do day work
D．help night workers to sleep well
2.What does the author recomusend?
A．A suitable account of alcohol to help sleep.
B．A regular life on weekday’s and weekends.
C．A dark room without phoebes to sleep in.
D．A break for sleeping anytime during the day.
3.On which condition should a person turn to a sleep specialist for help?
A．If he suffers from a sleep disorder for the first time.
B．If a good sleep environment is greatly needed for him.
C．If he falls to get quality sleep through his own efforts.
D．If he has the problem of bailing to sleep in the daytime.
4.We can learn from the test that .
A．night workers need a long time to fall asleep
B．constant breaks at work help to improve performance
C．it is difficult to create a good sleep environment
D．night work requires people to adjust their body clocks
In the computer age, most of us take a broadband（宽带）Internet connection for granted. Whether cable or mobile broadband, today’s connections are many times faster than those in the early days. Videos play smoothly, complex websites load quickly, and files（档案文件）download much faster than ten years ago. And the files are much bigger too.
There’s a catch, of course: You have to live near enough to a major city to get broadband Internet. If you don’t, it’s slow dial-up access for you. And for those living really far out, there may be no Internet access at all.
Technology experts often talk about the “last mile” problem, which refers to the difficulty of bringing Internet access to remote locations. In cities and suburbs（郊区）, it’s relatively easy to provide access for everyone. It is much more difficult to deliver access to those living far from cities, especially in developing countries. Internet service providers, for their part, have been reluctant to provide access to sparsely (稀疏地) populated areas. The handful of Internet users they would reach wouldn’t cover the expense.
But every year, technological advancements allow of more and more Internet users. Most broadband connections today run over existing cable TV and telephone lines although these technologies aren’t available everywhere.
Some companies have delivered the Internet over standard power lines. Advancements in cheaper, more efficient fiber optics cables (光纤电缆) promise to bring extremely fast Internet connections to more users.
Still, the “last mile” problem remains hard to deal with. There will always be somewhere that doesn’t have an affordable broadband connection. But someday that might not matter. If the rapid progress in cell phone technology is any indication (迹象), it may not be too long before an Internet connection simply follows you wherever you go.
1.The underlined part “a catch” (in Paragraph 2) probably means “_____”.
A．a rare challenge B．a desirable plan
C．an efficient device D．a hidden problem
2.What can we know from the third paragraph?
A．Internet connection has not been popular in most cities.
B．Internet service providers care about rural（农村的）customers.
C．Computer is popular in developing countries.
D．It is hard to bring Internet access to users in remote areas.
3.Paragraph 4 mainly tells us that technological advancements _____.
A．make TV and telephone available everywhere
B．bring great change to people’s everyday life
C．make it possible for more people to use the Internet
D．bring faster Internet connections to users
4.What may eventually settle the “last mile” problem?
A．The broadband connection’s getting faster.
B．More and more Internet users.
C．more and more Internet connections.
D．The rapid progress in cell phone technology.
