Many policemen and soldiers are ______ the forest _____ the prisoner escaping from prison.
A. searching for; searching
B. searching; searching
C. searching; in search of
D. in search for; searching for
Facing the ________situation, the boss of the company looked____
A. puzzling, puzzled B. puzzling, puzzling
C. puzzled, puzzled D. puzzled, puzzling
As we all know, _________ car is becoming _________ popular way of transportation in big cities.
A. the; a B. a; / C. the; / D. a; the
书面表达（共20分）
近年来，各地的水污染问题引起了人们的广泛关注。请就以下要点写一篇短文。
水污染的影响；
水污染的原因；
你的看法。
要求：
词数150左右，首句不计入总词数；
可以适当拓展，语句要通顺，层次要分明；
书写工整、美观。
In recent years, the water pollution has become the focus of people’s concern.
任务型阅读（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
Educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. Women’s education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest 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 are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious(恶性的) circle 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. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will argue 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 effect on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female 1. in developing countries
Viewpoint | Educating girls is more 2. and worthy of being invested. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
Attitudes | Girls are of 3. importance than boys. | Development should be for all the 4. . |
Practices | There is little 5. in daughters, while boys are sent to school. Girls are made to stay at home, 6. housework. | It is insisted that girls and boys be offered chances to be 7. equally. |
Consequences | A vicious circle | A virtuous circle |
Significance | Educating women contributes to social 8. , has economic advantages and 9. health practices significantly, including family planning. | |
10. | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. | |
动词适当形式填空（每空一词）(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)
1.To (sleep) late in the morning, Bob turned off the alarm.
2.Friendship (mean) having someone I can rely on.
3.Once the difficulty is (overcome), other problems will be easy to solve.
4.There are so many interesting animals and insects (live) in our parks.
5.The centre has 300 scientists (devote) to finding measures that will stop desertification.
6.He worked late into the night, (prepare) a long speech for the director.
7. (write) in a hurry, this article was not so good.
8.You swear that your friendship is as important as football, so don’t let a small disagreement (destroy) your friendship.
9.The efforts of the Chinese government and people to protect the Yangtze River will be
(appreciate) for years to come.
10.Our supply of food is (run) out now. We’d better store some.
