Raising ______ retirement age in progressive steps is in line with China’s labor market realities, ______ official said on Tuesday.
A. / ; the B. the; the C. the; an D. / ; an
—May I try on the blue tie over there? This one does not match my shirt, you see.
—______. Just wait for a minute.
A. By no means B. That’s all right
C. Don’t mention it D. By all means
NASA-s New Horizons probe（宇宙探测器）flew by Pluto（冥王星）this morning, sending back history's first up-close looks at the vast freezing-cold world. Closest approach came at 7:49 a.m. EDT. To celebrate, NASA gave out the latest photo of Pluto. It showed a reddish world with an amazing heart-shaped feature on its surface.
After today's close encounter, all the nine solar system's traditionally recognized planets have now been visited by a spaceship-a huge project begun in 1962 when NASA's Mariner 2 probe flew past Venus, a planet in the solar system. More than l,200 scientists, NASA guests and important persons, including 200 reporters, watched the flyby live at New Horizons' mission control center.
That close encounter has been a long time coming. The$723 million New Horizons mission launched in January 2006 but began taking shape in 1989. "New Horizons is'a capstone mission'," Glen Fountain, mission project manager told Space, com. "It is the first completion of the observations of our solar system. It-s giving us a new idea about how we human beings fit into the universe."
New Horizons "faced a crazy number of challenges," Stern, a driving force behind New Horizons said, "So many people stuck with this for so long. They got knocked down; they stood up. They got knocked down again; they stood up again.”
In a coincidence, today's close approach falls on the 50th anniversary of the first flyby of Mars, another planet, which was completed by NASA-s Mariner 4 spaceship.
There are no longer nine officially recognized planets, of course. The International Astronomical Union regarded Pluto as “a dwarf planet" in 2006 in a decision that remains controversial（有争议的）today.
1.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Ideas still vary in the identity of Pluto.
B. Only scientists could watch the flyby live.
C. Mars is the first planet visited by a spaceship.
D. New Horizons mission aimed to observe the solar system.
2.Glen Fountain may probably agree that _____________________．
A. it is the most difficult to land on Pluto in the solar system
B. New Horizons mission is a long and troublesome project
C. their strong determination leads to the successful flyby
D. people are likely to find new ways to fit into space
3.Which is the best title for the passage?
A.A New Horizons Probe
B. NASA's Huge Project
C. Pluto,a Controversial Planet
D. A Close Approach to Pluto
书面表达
假如你是李明，上周你班同学就“毕业前我们该为学校做些什么？”进行了讨论。请你根据以下内容要点，将同学们的建议用英语写一封信告诉你的笔友David, 并谈谈你的想法及理由。
1.为图书馆捐书； 2.美化校园； 3.刻苦学习。
注意：
1.词数120左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear David,
Last week we held an enthusiastic discussion on what we should do for our school before we graduate.
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。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(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，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。
Two men were traveling together while a bear suddenly met them. One of them climbed up into the tree. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, immediate lay on his back on the ground. When the bear came up, feeling him with his nose and smelt him all over, he held breath. The bear soon left him, for it’s said that a bear won’t touches a dead body. When he was gone, the other travelers went down from the tree. And he asked his friend that the bear had whispered to his ear. “He gave me a piece of advice,” his companion replied. “Never to travel with a friend who deserts you in the face of danger.”
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
The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the 1. (large) of the Earth’s oceans, 2. (cover) about 46% of the Earth’s water surface and 32% of its total surface area. It extends 3. the Arctic in the north to the Antarctica in the south, surrounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
The Pacific Ocean contains about 25,000 islands. The 4. (major) of them are found south of the equator. 5. water near the equator is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes (中纬度) for 6. (abundance) equatorial precipitation (赤道降水) throughout the year.
The surface circulation of Pacific waters is 7. (general) clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
The exploitation of the Pacific’s mineral wealth is various, 8. is influenced by the ocean’s great depths. In shallow waters off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, natural gas is produced, and pearls 9. (harvest) along the coasts of Australia, Japan and the Philippines. One more thing worth 10. (mention) is that the Pacific’s greatest wealth is its fish.
