Twelve years ago, a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco, California, visited the Sabah rainforest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rainforest,he watched a bird flying through the trees. The beautiful sight lett quite an impression on him. But weeks later, back home, Rhett Butler got the news that trees had been cut down in the area he visi1ed.
That experience led Rhett Butler to begin writing a book about rainforests and threats to their existence. But he did not publish the book. Instead, in 1999, he used his research for the book to create a website, Mongabay. com. His purpose was to inform the public about tropical rainforests. But the subject quickly developed. As a former businessman, he became a respected writer of science and environmental stories.
The popularity of Mongabay. com attracted advertisers. Small ads on the site pay for its operations. Mongabay. com has grown and led to other sites. For example,there is a site for children which is called Kids. Mongabay. com. Another one,WildMadangascar. o rg, is allabout the island nation that Rhett Butler calls his favorite place.
To keep his website going, he travels around the world on several major trips each year. His working tools are a laptop computer,cameras and sometimes diving equipment. He often calls on experts for information. For example,he interviewed Alison Jolly,a top expert on lemurs (狐猴）. He interviewed Rodney Jackson, a biologist who established the Snow Leopard Conservancy.
Stories like these have made Mongabay a favorite place on the Internet for researchers, students and teachers. In April, Time, com named it one of the fifteen top climate and environment websites in the world.
1.Rhett Butler didn’t publish his book about rainforests because________.
A. he didn’t want to become a writer
B. the book was not about rainforest protection
C. he wanted to use the information to create a website
D. making websites earned more money than writing books
2.To keep his website going,Rhett Butler___________.
A. kept visiting rainforests
B. raised rare snow leopards
C. traveled around and interviewed experts
D. produced a great number of advertisements
3.We can learn from the text that ________.
A. Rodney Jackson was once a businessman
B. Kids. Mongabay. com has many stories written by kids
C. Mongabay. com is loved by researchers as well as students
D. WildMadangascar. org is better known than Mongabay. com
4.What’s the main idea of the text?
A. Rhett Butler and his website.
B. Rainforests on Malaysian Borneo.
C. How Rhett Butler protected rare animals.
D. How Rhett Butler made his website popular.
Every university has a Students’Union. If students are the lifeblood of a university, the union is surely its beating heart.
For students, by students
A Students’Union is run by students and acts independently. At the end of each academic year, it will find six students to hold a sabbatical (带有休假的）position managing the Union for the coming year. That the six successful sabbatical officers have only recently experienced issues affecting students ensures that your needs are very well understood.
Letting your hair down
Although the university is spread across a fairly wide area, the Union is centrally located and is only a short walk from any of the main buildings. This makes it very easy to catch up with friends who might be on a different course.
At night, the place really comes alive—we have three different bars to suit every occasion. The venues are student-only so you can be sure of meeting people with a similar outlook and we throw in a transport service to make sure you get home safely.
The Union also organizes various formal balls throughout the year, with the highlight being the end-of-year ball.
Supporting you
Beyond having fun, we also make sure some of the more serious issues are effectively dealt with. If you have a problem with your course, another sabbatical officer is trained to help you. Being independent from the university means we can represent and support you to the best of our ability, and once you reach the university you may find that you know about more national or political issues.
1.What does the underlined phrase probably mean?
A. Stopping being self-centered.
B. Relaxing and enjoying yourself.
C. Telling others your feelings and secrets.
D. Cutting your hair and letting it fall freely.
2.According to the third paragraph, we can learn that___________.
A. a Students’Union is close to the home
B. a Students’Union is far away from the university
C. a Students’Union is in the central part of the university
D. a Students’Union has different courses for all the students
3.The person who takes up a certain post of the Students’Union_____________.
A. is very happy and easy
B. learns what the students need
C. can affect the life of any student
D. has understood everything of the university
When I was about 10, I was walking down the street with my mother. She stopped to speak to Mr Lee. I knew I could see Mr Lee anytime around the neighborhood, so I just stood there. After we passed him, my mother stopped and said something unforgettable, "You let that be the last time you ever walk by somebody you know without opening your mouth to speak, because even a dog can wag its tail when it passes you on the street." That sentence sounds simple but it made me become who I am.
At work, I used to say hello to the president of the company and ask him how our business was doing. But I also spoke to the people in the cafe? and people who cleaned the buildings, and asked them how their children were doing, for every single person deserves to be accepted, no mater how humble they are. I remember that after a few years of passing by the president, I had the courage to ask him for a chat. We had a great talk. At some point, when I asked him how far he thought I could go in his company, he said that if I wanted to, I could get all the way to his seat.
I've become vice-president, but that hasn't changed how I treat people. I speak to people wherever I am. Speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.
The day you speak to someone who has his head down and then see him lift it up and smile, you will realize how powerful it is just to open your mouth and say hello.
1.What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A. The writer didn’t say hello to anyone in the company.
B. The president of the company actually didn’t like the writer at all.
C. The writer made a very good impression on the president of the company.
D. The president of the company thought the writer was much better than him.
2.For the writer，saying hello to others____________.
A. is a way to get what he wants
B. has become a habit and a way of life
C. is a way to show respect for his mother
D. is important in making him remembered
3.The underlined sentence suggests that speaking to others can____________.
A. make our world much better
B. help people work much better
C. make people much happier every day
D. help people understand each other better
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A. The influence of the unforgettable experience
B. The power of being talkative
C. The power of saying hello
D. The road to success
假如你叫李华，你和父母在英国旅游期间于1月28日至30日入住Forest Hotel酒店，但对其提供的服务不满意，请发电子邮件给酒店的管理者进行投诉，要求其道歉并改进服务质量。1. 搬运工送到房间的皮箱破损；2. 卫生间漏水；3. 楼下酒吧有噪音，并持续到很晚，影响休息。
注意：1. 文章必须包括所有要点。可适当增加细节，以使文章连贯。
2. 词数100，文章开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数
3. 参考词汇：搬运工porter n; 皮箱suitcase n; 漏水leak vi.
Dear Manager,
My name is Li Hua. I stayed at your hotel__________________________
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Dear editor,
I’m sorry to occupy your precious time, and I really want to tell you anything about the problem of some people keeping too many pets nowadays. I take the problem more and more seriously for the following reason. First of all, as it is known to people, pets make loud noise that trouble residents a lot. What’s more, it is widely accepted that animal waste pollutes the environment, where makes people quite uncomfortable. Many owners like taking their pets to public place where they may frighten children or even bite people. The mostly important is that pets can spread some diseases and this has attracted much attention. Take all these factors into consideration, I sincerely hope that I can get help from you and expect the media do something for this.
Yours truly, Wang Lin
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If you’re a fan of The Hunger Games, you shouldn’t miss another trilogy called Divergent.
The second book, by US author Veronica Roth, 1.______ (publish) in 2012. It has spent 105 weeks on the USA Today best-selling books list and 2.____ (current) ranks No 1.
The trilogy’s story begins in a futuristic Chicago3._____ people are divided into five distinct groups. Each group is characterized by certain traits – Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Erudite (the intelligent), Amity (the peaceful) and Candor (the honest). Every child, at 16, takes a test 4.______ (see) which of the five factions he or she belongs to. But Beatrice Prior, born in Abnegation, is qualified 5._____ three, meaning she is a Divergent. And she is told not to tell 6._____ if she wants to stay alive.
So the decision is between staying with her family or being true to herself. Beatrice ends up 7._____ (choose) the Dauntless. After joining her new group, Beatrice renames herself Tris and tries to prove her 8._____ (brave) with amazing things like jumping off a moving train onto a rooftop. While undergoing these extreme physical tests, Tris must also determine who her real friends are.
The story of the trilogy “explores a more common adolescent anxiety – the painful realization 9.______ coming into one’s own sometimes means leaving family behind, both ideologically 10.______ physically”, commented The New York Times.
