If you want to find out a piece of information about anything, the best place to search it is Wikipedia. This online encyclopedia is (write) by thousands of people around the world. Anyone can add or change the information if he or she finds it not correct or not well written. In this way, people who know a lot about a certain subject can write about it they are not university professors.
What is more, Wikipedia includes articles written in about 253 languages. This fact makes it of the few websites (��վ) on the Internet that are truly international. It was started in 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, as a free online English-language encyclopedia project. By April 2008, over 10 million articles ________( put on) Wikipedia. A quarter of the articles are in English. Wikipedia is also a place people can find the latest news.
However, Wikipedia has its own problems. There have been many complaints that some of the information on Wikipedia is not accurate and some important subjects are not included. This has led to arguments between the writers of the articles. The people (run) Wikipedia say that the accuracy of the information is improving and that it is one of the top 20 visited websites on the Internet.
So, if you are looking for some information, why not (try) Wikipedia?
What do you do if you don't get into your first choice of university? That's the question faces thousands of students in Britain every year.
Many students turn to Clearing, an education agency that helps (find) university places for students at the last moment. students don't have enough marks to get into their first choice of universities, Clearing tells them about places available at other universities, though they might have to study another subject.
But this year has seen a record number of students want to study in universities. This means that there's been a fiecer competition for university places than usual. Education officials say six students competed for one place. It’s said almost 190,000 students still don't have a place in a university. That's a rise of over 46,000 students from last year.
(face) with these numbers, some students are going to be disappointed, others might be thinking of an interesting choice: studying abroad. The University of Nottingham, for example, is offering places in Ningbo, near Shanghai.
the problems with university entrance, the UK's Higher Education Minister, David Willetts, encourages students to study at home or to learn one kind of skills, such as cooking, hairdressing and so on . some people say that rising university costs, less hope to find jobs in the future, and a drop in graduate recruitment（大学招生）mean it's (bad) time to be a university student in the UK.
假如你是李华。你的朋友Mike 染上了烟瘾，请你写一封信说服他戒烟。
要点如下:
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吸烟的危害 |
1. 危害自身和他人健康 |
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2. 污染空气 |
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3. 其它原因 |
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戒烟方法 |
1. 远离吸烟者 |
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2. 逐渐减少吸烟量 |
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3. 其它方法 |
词数：100-120 左右，信的开头和结尾已给出。
Dear Mike,
Recently I have noticed that you are addicted to smoking.
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Quitting smoking is not as hard as you think. If you keep trying you will succeed.
Yours,
Li Hua
短文填空 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
By the time he was 14, Mozart had 1. many pieces for the harpsichord, piano and violin, as well as for orchestras. While he was still a 2. , Mozart was already a big star and 3. Europe giving concerts. Haydn met Mozart in 1781 and was very 4. with him. “He is the greatest composer the world has known,” he said. The two were friends until Mozart’s 5. in 1791.
请根据首字母或汉语提示完成句子。
1.Selling cigarettes to teens is considered i_________ in many countries.
2.I r________ Tom at the sight of him in the street though we haven’t seen each other for years.
3.People often judge you by the first i___________ you make.
4.I would a___________ it if you carry the box for me.
5.He is proud that his son has been a___________ to Oxford University.
6.We __________(交换) our addresses when we met for the first time.
7.Doctors are aiming to _______________(集中) more on prevention than cure.
8.Do you like a live show or a ______________(录制的) show ?
9.That did great harm to the health of those _________ (上瘾的) to drugs
10.He was so lucky that he ________ (幸存) the traffic accident.
C.O.P.D(慢性障碍性肺病) blocks air flow through the lungs. It makes breathing difficult. The leading cause of C.O.P.D. is cigarette smoking. Experts at the National Institutes of Health in the United States say there is no cure to the damage to the lungs.
Dawn Demeo is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She said, “By 2020, C.O.P.D. may be the third leading cause of death across the world.”
C.O.P.D. is a new name for emphysema（肺气肿） and chronic bronchitis（慢性支气管炎）. These are the two most common forms of the disease. Many people with C.O.P.D. have both of them. And Doctor Demeo says more women than men now die from the disease.
She is the lead author of a study by a team from Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway. The new study adds to findings that women may be more at risk than men from the damaging effects of smoking.
The team examined results from a Norwegian study of 954 people with C.O.P.D. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim co-wrote the team’s findings. Doctor Soerheim says they show that women suffered the same level of C.O.P.D.as men. But the female smokers were younger and had smoked a lot less.
The team also looked at two groups among the people in the study. These were people under the age of 60 and those who had smoked for less than 20 years. In both cases, women had more serious C.O.P.D. and a greater loss of lung function (功能）than men.
1.Which of the following statements about C.O.P.D is NOT true ______.
A. Cigarette smoking is likely to cause C.O.P.D.
B. C.O.P.D. makes it hard for a person to breathe
C. C.O.P.D will be one of the most life-threatening diseases.
D. Many people with C.O.P.D. have either emphysema or chronic bronchitis.
2.It can be known from the study that_____.
A. female smokers die faster than male ones.
B. women are more likely to suffer from the damaging effects of smoking than men.
C. women who suffer the same level of C.O.P.D as men were older and weaker.
D. in the group of people under the age of 60, men suffered more from C.O.P.D than women.
3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A .Smoking Kills
B. Smoking Triggers Diseases
C. The Leading Causes of C.O.P.D.
D. Women Suffers More from C.O.P.D. than Men
4.In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?
A. Science B. Health report C .Education D. Business report
