Loma just had to get in touch with someone：“I had to tell my best friend something important. I tried calling her but I couldn’t get through. So I sent her an e-mail and then I spoke to her on MSN. Without technology I would not have been able to tell her. ”
Staying connected with friends and family is important for us. That’s why we asked our readers to tell us how cell-phones, e-mail, blogs, text messaging, and personal pages help them keep in touch. More than 1,500 responded.
Most of them told us they couldn’t live without technology：80％of teens said they need technology to stay in touch. Almost 30％said they’d be completely out of their friends without their cell-phones and other methods of communication.
What do they do when they’ve got news they need to share now? Most teens say they try to reach their friends by phone. But if they don’t reach them, they use QQ, e-mails, and text messaging to get the words out.
Lots of people use one way of c
ommunication—like text messaging—to get a friend’s attention and then use another where they can talk more. “My friends and I always tell each other everything that happens. So I send them text messages to tell them to come online so we can talk about it,” said Sabeiha.
“When planning to get together with friends”, Julian said, “the easiest and fastest way I know is to send a text message to my contact group.” Jocelyn said. “If I want to go to see a movie with a few friends, I usually send text message to them. By telephone, you have to call every single friend one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many as you’d like, which saves a lot of time.
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. E-mails. B. Blogs.
C. Personal pages. D. Personal letters.
2.What do most young people use first when they have news to tell their friends?
A. MSN. B. QQ. C. Phones. D. Text message.
3.The underlined part “get the words out” means“”.
A. send the message B. send the e-mail
C. talk with their friends D. meet their friends
4.In which part of a newspaper can you find this passage
?
A. Sport. B. Education.
C. Technology. D. Culture.
Peter Owen was born in Wales in 1771. At the age of ten he went to work. His employer had a large private library so Owen was able to educate himself. He read a lot in his spare time and at nineteen he was given the job of superintendent(监工) at a Manchester cotton mill. He was so successful there that he 
persuaded his employer to buy the New Lanark mill in Scotland.
When he arrived at New Lanark it was a dirty little town with a population of 2,000 people. Nobody paid any attention to the workers' houses or their children's education. The conditions in the factories were very bad. There was a lot of crime and the men spent most of their wages on alcoholic drinks.
Owen improved the houses. He encouraged people to be clean and save money. He opened a shop and sold the workers cheap, well-made goods to help them. He limited the sale of alcoholic drinks. Above all, he fixed his mind on the children's education. In 
1816 he opened the first free primary school in Britain.
People came from all over the country to visit Owen's factory. They saw that the workers were healthier and more efficient than in other towns. Their children were better fed and better educated. Owen tried the same experiment in the United States. He bought some land there in 1825, but the community was too far away. He could not keep it under control and lost most of his money.
Owen never stopped fighting for his idea. Above all he believed that people are not born good or bad. He was a practical man and his ideas were practical. "If you give people good working conditions," he thought, "they will work well and, the most important thing of all, if you give them the chance to learn, they will be better people."
1.For Owen, his greatest achievement in New Lanark was _______.
A. improving worker's houses
B. helping people to save money
C. preventing men from getting drunk
D. providing the children with a good education
2. From the passage we may infer that Owen was born _______.
A. into a rich family B. into a noble family
C. into a poor family D. into a middle class family
3.Owen's experiment in the United States failed because _______.
A. he lost all his money
B. he did not buy enough land
C. people who visited it were not impressed
D. it was too far away for him to organize it properly
4. We may infer form the passage that no children in Britain could enjoy free education until
____.
A. 1771 B. 1816 C. 1825 D. 1860
Asia-Pacific consumers are the world's largest group of online shopping lovers and many rely on Internet reviews when making purchases, research firm Nielsen said this week.
The firm said 35% of consumers in Asia-Pacific used over 11% of their monthly spending to make online purchases, compared to a global average of 27% of consumers.
South Koreans were the heaviest online buyers in Asia, with 59% direc
ting more than 11% of their monthly spending to online purchases, followed by 41% in China, Nielsen said in a report.
A further 31% of Asian
consumers use between 6% and 10% of their monthly shopping purchases to buy items online.
More Asia-pacific consumers also intend to buy online in the next six months than those from other regions, with South Koreans and Chinese the most likely to make such purchases.
Among the purchases consumers in the region are likely to make in the next six months are books, clothing, shoes, airline tickets, electronic equipment and hotel reservations.
"Technology and the Internet will very likely basically change how and where shoppers spend their money and interact with sellers,” said Pete Gale, a managing director at Nielsen's Retailer Services.
"We are seeing a strong trend in markets like Korea, where a significant population of online shoppers buy essentials such as groceries, cosmetics and nutrition supplies over the Internet."
Nielsen said opinions posted online were important in Asia-pacific customers' decisions to buy products such as cosmetics, cars, software and food.
Asia-pacific consumers were also the most likely to share dissatisfaction at a product on the Internet compared with consumers elsewhere.
"The increasing accessibility of the Internet and unbelievable popularity of social media and online discussion forums mean today's brands have nowhere to hide, " said Megan Clarken, Asia-Pacific managing director at Nielsen's online division.
Nielsen said in June that social media such as Facebook and Twitter or blogging sites had become powerful tools influencing what people buy and urged businesses to embrace the trend.
1.What influences Asia-Pacific consumers most when making purchases online?
A. Other buyers' comments
B. Powerful online tools
C. The varieties of online item
D. The price and the way to play
2.Who uses more than 11% of their monthly spending to buy online?
A.31% of Asians B. 41% of Chinese
C. 41% of south Koreans D. 26% of global consumers
3.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The trend of doing e-business is speeding up.
B. Asians are most likely to shop with a “click.”
C. Online shopping is developing quickly worldwide.
D. Asia-Pacific consumers are fans of online discussion forums.
书面表达
春节期间，很多同学收到了父母和亲戚给的压岁钱，近日，你在你班做了一个关于“中学生如何使用压岁钱(lucky money)”的调查,请根据以下内容和要求写一篇短文。
【写作内容】
1. 使用方式：
1) 一些同学存入银行，养成节约的习惯；
2) 一些同学购买书籍，获取更多的知识；
3) 其他方式(至少写两种方式)；
2. 请发表你对压岁钱使用的看法。
【写作要求】字数：100—120字; 文章第一句已经给出，不计入总数。
Recently, I have carried out a survey on how middle school students use our lucky money in my class.____________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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短文改错
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。每处错误仅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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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。
Three years ago I fail all important exam in my life and became a student in a ordinary schoo1．Disappointing as I felt at the shabby campus and the poorly-equipped classroom，I found the teachers patiently．Besides，I enjoyed the friendly atmosphere in class．I decided make the best of it．I worked hard and got along well with my teachers and classmate．Whenever I had difficulties，you were always available．Soon I became one of the most best students in my class．
My experience tells me that it’s not what you are given and how you make use of it which determines who you are．
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
It 1. (take)me quite a while to find a parking place for my car，and in2. end I had to leave it in a narrow street，some way away from the dentist’s．My3. (appoint)was at five and I still had twenty minutes．4. (spare)．I crossed into the square 5. (slow)and sat on a bench．This was my 6. (nine)visit to the dentist and I hated these visits．
I waited there， 7. (watch)the children at play．When I turned around，I saw a red car like my own come out of the street 8. I had parked．The car gathered speed and was soon out of sight．I felt in both my 9. (pocket)for the keys：They were not there．“My car!”I cried10. a loud voice，which made several people stare at me．But when I ran across the square I discovered my car behind a large one．The keys were still in the car．
