Net Library is a library that lends out digital books. It treats a digital book like a paperback copy. It charges libraries per book per copy and gives publishers a cut of the total income.
From the consumer’s point of view, this means that if more than five people want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel, other people who request that book will get a message saying the title is unable to get.
Many publishers seem to have embraced its model. More than 350 publishers gave the company rights to hand out their digital works, and McGraw-Hill Corporation and Houghton Mifflin Corporation have put money into the company. The California public libraries and about 1,800 others across the US are trying out the Net Library service.
Some librarians criticize the Net Library model. Stanford University librarian Michael Keller argues that the company is creating an unnatural fear of digital works, which is contrary to the ideas of the Internet.
Keller and some other librarians argue for the e-book vision set forth by Brary. Brary is starting a service that lets us users read books for free.
But it will charge about 25 cents a page when a person tries to point out material or copy and taste it into a different file or tries to download a copy onto a computer.
Christopher Warnock, chief executive of Brary, believes most consumers won’t want to buy entire books, only the parts that interest them.
“There is not really a lot of good owning an electronic file and having to store it and manage it. It doesn’t make sense,” he said.
1.How do publishers get money from the Net Library?
A．They get money from selling their books to the Net Library
B．They get money from the readers．
C．They get money by cutting the cost of the books．
D．They share the money with Net Library．
2.The underlined word “embraced” in the third paragraph means
A. tried out something hard
B. held something tightly
C. disliked something badly
D. taken something willingly
3.What does the last paragraph mean?
A. Net Library is not a good way for the consumers．
B. There is no need for consumers to have a whole book．
C. Brary is not a good library for the consumers．
D. It’s reasonable to charge the consumers money for copying some pages．
China Daily Oct.11,2008-TheMinistry Of Health has called for more awareness from the public on the mental health of the young as part of efforts to mark World Mental Health Day which fell on Friday．
More than 15 percent of Chinese youths have been found with mental problems and about 30 million young people under 17 are suffering from depression，the Shanghai-based Wenhui Daily reported．The World Health Organization estimates that before 2020，the rate of children with mental problems will increase to 50 percent ,and mental problem will become a major factor behind deaths and illness in the young worldwide．
Dang Xianhong，the spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau，said rapid social change is one of the reasons behind the rising number of youngsters with psychological problems．If these mental dispenses are not addressed on time, science of crimes，drug-taking and other dangerous behaviors are expected to rise．Experts said mental diseases could be caused by many factors，such as the inability to handle interpersonal relations well, unstable emotions and pressures from an overload of studies．A number of experts have also said the one child policy is another reason leading to poor mental health in the young．Children are said to be too “spoiled” and “selfish” in a one child family．
It’s reported that schools in many cities are rolling out measures to help students maintain their mental well-being．Yin Jingmiao, a teacher of the Beijing No，105 Middle School，told China Daily that the school invites psychologists to provide counseling to students three times a month．“Students can be arranged to have 40-minute counseling sessions.” Yin said．“The school also gives lectures on mental health to senior grade students before they take the national college entrance exams to help ease any anxiety arising from the tests.”
1.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．Efforts to Mark World Mental Health Day
B．Public Awareness on Youngsters’ Mental Diseases Expected
C．How to Maintain Mental Well-being
D．Seriousness of Youngsters Mental Health Problems
2.The writer intends to tell us in the second paragraph that _____.
A. mental problems will become as serious as deaths and illness
B. only young people are suffering from mental health problems
C. mental health problems of the young are becoming a popular problem
D. the rate of children with mental problems will increase to 50 percent
3.Which could be the consequence if the problem is left untreated?
A．Inability to handle interpersonal relations．
B．Unstable emotions．
C．Drug taking and other dangerous behaviors．
D．Rapid social changes
4.Why is Beijing No. 105 Middle School mentioned in the passage?
A．To provide the students with counseling sessions．
B．To give an example showing how mental problems are dealt with．
C．To help ease the anxiety arising from college entrance exams．
D．To call on other schools to learn from No．105 Middle Schoo1．
A study found that young people have a stronger and more unpleasant scent (气味) than the elderly，while elderly people’s smell was the most distinctive，less intense and unpleasant. Researchers said the change in our smell is driven by the chemicals we release through our glands (腺) and the bacteria on our skin.
To test whether or not it really exists，scientists collected a series of samples from three groups of 12 to 16 donors，aged 20 to 30，45 to 55 and 75 to 95.Volunteers wore special T－shirts fitted with underarm pads (护垫) as they slept for five nights，after which the pads were cut up and put in glass jars. A separate group of 41 people aged 20 to 30 was then asked to smell two jars at a time and asked which group of the donors was older，as well as rating how strong and unpleasant each smell was.
When asked to specify whether a particular sample was from a young，middle aged or old person，they were much more successful at identifying older people. Despite being the most distinctive，the older people’s smell was also rated as being obviously less intense and less unpleasant than those from the other groups.
Researchers said their findings appeared to contradict people's negative ideas about the old person’s smell but admitted other factors，like smelly breath or skin，could be to blame for its bad reputation.
“Similar to other animals，humans can give off body scents that allow us to identify biological age，avoid sick individuals and pick a suitable partner. Elderly people have a distinctive scent that younger people consider to be not very unpleasant. This was surprising given the popular conception of old age scent as smelly. However，it's possible that other sources of body scents，such as skin or breath，may have different qualities,” said Dr Johan Lundstrom，who led the study.
1.What do we know from the study?
A．People of different ages give off different scents.
B．People's scent can only be changed by the bacteria on their skin.
C．People show great interest in old people's scent.
D．People's scent can help distinguish a man and a woman.
2.Which of the following ages of people have the chance to participate in the study?
A．16 B． 77 C．74 D．56
3.According to the passage, people usually think that________．
A．old people's scent is simply from their breath
B．old people have a bad reputation mainly for their skin
C．old people's scent is terrible and unpleasant
D．old people give off a more pleasant scent
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?
A．To tell old people how to remove their terrible scent.
B．To prove that people often hold wrong ideas.
C．To show how researchers carried out their study about the scent.
D．To report the findings of a study about people's scent.
书面表达
假如你是李华，你参加了你校本周五举行的英语阅读比赛并获得第一名。请根据以下提示用英语给你的美国笔友Tom写一封80词左右的电子邮件。内容包括:
1. 描述比赛的情况；
2. 希望他提供单词的记忆方法；
3. 欢迎他到中国过春节。
提示：春节 the Spring Festival
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
单句改错
注意: 错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），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的词。
1.It’s the first time that I had seen the movie star face to face.
2.English is one of the official language used in India.
3.Although he tries to talk to my classmates, but I still find it hard to make friends with him.
4.Believing it or not, there is no such thing as standard English.
5.After graduate from college, we finally got to the chance to take a bike trip.
6.The number of people who were killed or serious injured reached more than 400,000.
7.We went to see our teacher who husband lost his life in the earthquake.
8.To be honest, a lot of people attach importance to become rich and famous.
9.As matter of fact, every country wants the opportunity to host the Olympics.
10.I remembered the day which I began to study in the school.
阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示写出单词的正确形式，并将答案写在答题纸上的相应题号后。
1.I believe you can ____________ (成功) in what you are doing now.
2.Can you ____________ (探索) the market possibility for us?
3.On New Year’s Eve, our house will be ____________ (装饰) with beautiful pictures.
4.It was____________ ( 以...为基础) more on German than the English we speak at present.
5.Sadly, only a few passengers ____________ (幸免) the traffic accident that happened last week.
6.Every four years many athletes from all over the world are ____________(接纳) as competitors.
7.He strongly ____________ (不同意) with what Anne had said.
8.A large number of houses in that area were ____________ (破坏) by the terrible earthquake.
9.They ____________ (应受) to be sent to prison because they had broken the law.
10.After ____________ (袭击) three children, the wild dog was controlled by the policemen.
