One of the latest trends（趋势） in American Childcare is Chinese au pairs．Au Pair in Stamford, Conn, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese au pairs from aero to around 4, 000 since 2004．And that’s true all across the country．
“I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age” Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son．“I would at least like to give him the chance to use the language in the future, ” After only six months of being cared by 25-year-old woman from China, the boy can already understand basic Chinese daily expressions, his dad says．
Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China．She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots．” Because I am Chinese, my husband and I wanted the children to keep exposed to(接触) the language and culture．” she says．
“Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, ” says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of Children．”But parents must understand that just one year with au pair is unlikely to produce wonders． Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12．”
The popularity if au pairs from china has been strengthened by the increasing numbers of American parents who want their children who want their children to learn Chinese．It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years．
1.What does the term” au pair” in the text mean?
A．A mother raising her children on her own
B．A child learning a foreign language at home
C．A professor in language education of children
D．A young foreign woman taking care of children．
2.Li Drake has her children study Chinese because she wants them ______．
A．to live in China some day
B．to speak the language at home
C．to catch up wit other children
D．to learn about the Chinese culture
3.What can we infer from the text?
A．Learning Chinese is becoming popular In America,
B．Educated woman do better in looking after children
C．Chinese au pairs need to improve their English Skills．
D．Children can learn a foreign language well in six months．
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment ．“We didn’t know at that time that there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it, ”says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA．
But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement ．Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement．“The understanding has increased many, many times, ”says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day．
According to US government reports , emissions (排放)from cars and trucks have dropped from 10．3 million tons a year to 5．5 tons ．The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9 ．Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with , the world is a safer and healthier place ．A kind of “Green thinking ” has become part of practices ．
Great improvement has been achieved ．In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs , ; today in 1995 there are about 6, 600 ．Advanced lights , motors , and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution ．
Twenty –five years ago , there were hardly any education programs for environment ．Today , it’s hard to find a public school , university , or law school that does not have such a kind of program ．” Until we do that , nothing else will change! ” say Bruce Anderson ．
1.According to Anderson , before 1970, Americans had little idea about ___
A．the social movement
B．recycling techniques
C．environmental problems
D．the importance of Earth Day
2.Where does the support for environmental protection mainly come from?
A．The grass –roots level
B．The business circle
C．Government officials
D．University professors
3.What have Americans achieved in environmental protection ?
A．hey have cut car emissions to the lowest
B．They have settled their environmental problems
C．They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities．
D．They have reduced pollution through effective measures ．
4.What is especially important for environmental protection according to the last paragraph ?
A．Education
B．Planning
C．Green living
D．CO reduction
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中，选出最佳选项。
Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband , Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children．
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping．He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone．He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport．
He reported the case to the police and then sat there，lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one．
Late in the evening, the phone rang．It was a stranger．He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions．Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath．
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents．Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers．Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents．At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend．
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people．We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way．
1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?
A．Go shopping
B．Find a house
C．Join his family
D．Take a vacation
2.The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______．
A．a friend of his family
B．a Sydney policeman
C．a letter in his papers
D．a stranger in Sydney
3.What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?
A．Showed
B．Sent out
C．Delivered
D．Gave back
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．From India to Australia．
B．Living in a a New Country．
C．Turning Trash to Treasure
D．In Search of New Friends．
作文（共1小题）
假设你叫李华，是一名高三学生。自从进入高三以后，你发现部分同学晚上学习到很晚。他们边学习边吃零食或喝可乐，早上则由于起床太晚而不吃早餐，你感觉这样会对身体有害。请你根据这种现象给《英语周报》写一封信反映上述情况，并谈谈自己的想法。
注意：(1) 可根据内容需要适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(2) 词数：100左右。
Dear Editor,
_____________________________________________________________________
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Yours faithfully,
Li Hua
短文改错（共1小题）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
College students have few ways to pay their college fees．Many students have their parents to do it．Some students may apply to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs in and out of the campus．Apart from this, many good student can win a scholarship, in this way they can pay at least part of the fees．As to me, I will let my parents pay half of their fees because they are that rich．Beside my study, I will take up a part-time job by teach some high school students math, physics, chemistry and English, as I’m very good at these important subjects．Of course I will also work very hard at my lessons in order to I can easily win a scholarship.
阅读填空（共1小题）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Snake dishes have become popular _1.___ recent years．Snake meat in various flavors (风味) is often seen in restaurant ads．Eating snake seems to be now in vogue(盛行), and if you haven’t eaten snake yet, you _2.____(consider) “out of date”．But I wonder__3.____ all the trends are worth following.
Some people may defend themselves _4._____ saying that snake meat is nutritious．But these people don’t realize that many parasites(寄生虫)，_5.___ do harm to our health, are found inside snakes.
According _6.____ a survey, about 1000 tons of snakes are eaten every year in China and sometimes as 7.____ as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in Shenzhen in a single day!
These figures warns us that if no action is taken, __8.____ number of snakes will drop and make an increase in mice and worms population, which will __9._____ in a decrease(减产) of crop output．Who will see such tragedy happen?
So let’s start not to eat snakes any more because “to protect the snake is to protect __10.____.”
